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A homemade cell tower allowed fraudsters in the UK to bombard people with scam texts
The cybercriminals are accused of piecing together an illegitimate cell tower or "SMS blaster" device to bypass mobile carriers' systems for filtering out sketchy text messages.
The operation was led by the City of London Police's Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit, which has been working the case alongside regulators like Ofcom and cybersecurity agencies. "The criminals committing these types of crimes are only getting smarter, working in more complex ways to trick unknowing members of the public and steal whatever they can get their hands on," said Detective Chief Inspector David Vint, head of the specialist police unit. These controversial devices, normally used by law enforcement for investigations, can trick nearby phones into connecting to a spoofed cell tower set up by the bad guys instead of a real carrier network.
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