Chinese national living unlawfully in Australia denied bail over phishing scam involving millions of fraudulent texts

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-27/chinese-national-denied-bail-text-phishing-scam-townsville/104405630

4 Comments

  1. >She said her client wanted to resolve the matter as quickly as possible so he could return home.

    Na, give him a bit of gaol first.

  2. 4.9 million texts, 1265 sim cards.

    Thats about 3874 texts per sim card, 3874 text presumably all to different numbers.

    Sure, he changed sim cards and so on. But a single sim sending so many texts all to different numbers? Doesn’t this set any alarm bells ringing at the telcos?