Man Arrested over Operation of Rogue Cellular Base Station in Tokyo
Police suspect the device forced phones onto 2G networks and sent Chinese-language texts linked to a phishing scheme that caused about 4 million yen in losses.
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Chinese man sent to prosecutors over rogue cell tower, phishing suspected
A Chinese man was referred to prosecutors Monday for allegedly disrupting a major mobile carrier's services in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district with a rogue cell tower device, with police investigating possible links to a phishing scheme using illegal radio signals.
A Chinese Man Was Arrested in Tokyo for Setting up a Fake Base Station to Send Interference Signals.
A Chinese man was arrested by Japanese police for allegedly illegally setting up a fake mobile phone base station in his car. The fake base station disrupted the network for over 10,000 nearby mobile phones, causing brief disconnections, and then sent phishing text messages impersonating credit cards to fraudulently use them. Police estimate the total losses from the fraud to be approximately 4 million yen.
On November 7, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested a Chinese national on suspicion of violating the Radio Law for allegedly emitting jamming signals from an unauthorized wireless device installed in a passenger car on a street in Ginza, Tokyo, thereby disrupting the communication of smartphones in the surrounding area.
[Cable News] The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department alleges that a 31-year-old Chinese man allegedly used a high-powered wireless device installed in his car at the Ginza intersection in Tokyo last Saturday.
A Chinese national has been arrested in Tokyo for allegedly operating a fraudulent base station by illegally transmitting radio waves in a busy area of the city. The suspect, Yu Hai (31), who is unemployed, is suspected of installing a radio in his car on a street in Ginza, Tokyo, on the 7th, and illegally transmitting radio waves to operate a fraudulent base station. Yu is suspected of sending phishing scam emails to smartphones in the Ginza, S…
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