Nationwide crackdown on text message fraud

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Nationwide crackdown on text message ******

Police have arrested six people and seized dozens of ******** SIM boxes used to send millions of scam text messages to trick people into downloading malware or sharing personal information.

The *********** Federal Police and state police forces launched a national day of action of Thursday in a bid to protect Australians from the scams that rake in tens of millions of dollars.

SIM boxes are used by cyber ********** to commit large-scale SMS phishing attacks known as ‘smishing’ – the use of deceptive text messages to spread malware or harvest personal information.

The scams target Australians through their banking or government-affiliated online accounts.

The AFP and state police forces worked together to ******** six search warrants, leading to four arrests in NSW and two in Victoria.

During the searches police seized 29 SIM boxes, thousands of mobile SIM cards, laptops, hundreds of mobile phones, stolen identity documents, $166,000 in cash and two luxury vehicles valued at $330,000.

The SIM boxes have multiple slots for SIM cards and are connected to computers which program them to constantly send out scam texts.

The charges against those arrested include using equipment connected to a network to commit a serious offence, dishonestly obtaining/dealing in personal financial information and dealing with identity information to commit an indictable offence.

AFP Detective Superintendent Tim Stainton said SIM boxes were “cheap and malicious machines” ********** used to defraud hundreds of victims at a time.

“********** will send millions of deceptive text messages to *********** mobile users, casting a wide net over the entire community in an attempt to trap and defraud as many victims as possible,” he said.

“If not disrupted through police action, the SIM boxes had a combined potential to continue to distribute between four and six million fraudulent messages every day.

Supt Stainton said the AFP was working tirelessly with its law enforcement partners to eradicate the ********* exploitation of SIM boxes nationwide.

“We encourage people to protect themselves against phishing scams by carefully reviewing emails or text messages before clicking on any links.”

In NSW, police seized 26 SIM boxes which had sent over 318 million messages over past months, scamming victims out of millions of dollars.

Victoria Police Detective Superintendent Tim McKinney said a single SIM box could hold more than 100 SIM cards and was capable of sending hundreds of thousands of malicious text messages a day.

“It involves ********** essentially casting their net out far and wide and taking advantage of the trust the community has in legitimate business names,” he said.

“They rely on a handful of unsuspecting recipients clicking the link and inputting their details, and the consequences for those people can be devastating and life changing.

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