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Oh so it's happening in Canada too? I've seen it reported on media in another place few months back. Someone's shipping a standardized kit of Stingray with bat
by numpad0 6mo ago
Oh so it's happening in Canada too? I've seen it reported on media in another place few months back.
Someone's shipping a standardized kit of Stingray with battery and PSU to be installed in the back of German station wagons. The kits are suspected to be spamming phishing texts, at least some in Chinese. The cars are driven as unregistered taxis paid for on Chinese platforms, avoiding taxes while also justifying its driving routes and expenses that involve tourist destinations.
It's not clear to me if this Chinese authority/PLA doing or if it's another one of those southern Chinese warlord thing, both sounds plausible.
- xiconfjs 6mo agoDo you have any source for this? It‘s not about trust in your information but do get deeper into this topic.
- numpad0 6mo agoI was misremembering a bit, it was about exactly one year ago. No English sources for the case I saw that I'm aware of. A rather interesting and Tom Clancy part of this whatever op is that, someone did a bit of digging and discovered that all instances of this across regions and nations use the exact same model of that black air circulator fan that aren't exactly sold everywhere. So as janky as they look, it's clearly a disciplined military style operation by some organized group than just local gangs buying parts and improvising as they go. 1: https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2504/15/news133.html https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2504/15/news133.html
- red_admiral 6mo agoAnd Switzerland: (German) https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/kassensturz/cyberkriminalitaet-sms-blaster-neue-perfide-betrugsmasche-in-der-schweiz https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/kassenstur... There too, the person arrested was a Chinese citizen.
- nubinetwork 6mo agoI've also heard of this happening in NZ. https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/10/03/sms-blaster-found-for-first-time-in-nz-alleged-scammer-arrested/ https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/10/03/sms-blaster-found-for-fir...
- Orygin 6mo agoIt's also happened in France ~but google refuses to find me a source~: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/02/13/eight-to-face-trial-in-france-over-mass-text-message-scam_6750462_13.html https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/02/13/eight-to... Does not seem related to Chinese nationals here, but standard scam SMS