The Thailand police situated a van and arrested its driver for utilizing an SMS blaster machine to spam over 100,000 SMS phishing texts an hour to folks residing in Bangkok.
The machine, which reportedly had a spread of roughly three kilometers (10,000 toes), might ship out messages at a charge of 100,000 each hour.
Over three days, the scammers despatched nearly a million SMS textual content messages to cellular units in vary that said, “Your 9,268 points are about to expire! Hurry up and redeem your gift now.”
The textual content messages contained a hyperlink to a phishing web site that contained the string ‘aisthailand,’ impersonating Superior Information Service (AIS), Thailand’s largest cell phone operator.
Customers who clicked on the phishing URL had been taken to a web page requesting their bank card info, which is then despatched again to the scammers to carry out unauthorized transactions in different international locations.
The fraud gang, a few of its members situated in Thailand, and others overseas, coordinated by non-public Telegram channels, the place the content material of the SMS was determined.
A 35-year-old Chinese language who was driving the car containing the SMS blaster was arrested, and the police are searching for not less than two extra members of the fraud ring.
Khaosod English reviews that AIS assisted the police in pinpointing the SMS blaster machine. Nonetheless, AIS has not supplied particulars on the way it was achieved to stop spammers from adjusting their ways.
Though these phishing messages sometimes have low success charges as a result of public’s elevated consciousness, they’ll yield important proceeds for the perpetrators when distributed at such a excessive charge and in densely populated areas.
H/T Sick.Codes
