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Bangkok busts SMS Blaster sending 1 million scam texts from a van

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Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Date Published: 2024-11-24

Date Updated: 2026-03-27

Author: Bill Toulas

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Thai police disrupted a high-volume SMS phishing campaign in Bangkok that used a mobile SMS blaster (approx. 3 km range, ~100k messages/hour) to impersonate AIS and lure victims to a phishing site harvesting credit card data; nearly a million messages were sent in three days, the device operator was arrested, the fraud ring coordinated via Telegram, and AIS assisted authorities in locating the transmitter.

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