{"id":85359,"date":"2026-02-21T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85359"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:07:01","slug":"fraudsters-targeted-tube-passengers-with-scam-texts-using-homemade-sms-blasters-in-suitcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/21\/fraudsters-targeted-tube-passengers-with-scam-texts-using-homemade-sms-blasters-in-suitcases\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudsters targeted Tube passengers with scam texts using homemade &#8216;SMS blasters&#8217; in suitcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WLFIa.img?w=534&amp;h=567&amp;m=6&amp;x=167&amp;y=201&amp;s=292&amp;d=292\" alt=\"Zhijia Fan, 48, (pictured) and Daoyan Shang, 20, had been wheeling around large suitcases containing 'SMS blasters', which sent phishing messages to commuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two men have pleaded guilty to plotting to target Tube passengers in a text message scam using homemade &#8216;SMS blasters&#8217; hidden inside suitcases.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/fraudsters-targeted-tube-passengers-with-scam-texts-using-homemade-sms-blasters-in-suitcases\/ar-AA1WLFId?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=add93bf7ea134c69a08a89ee1e414246&amp;ei=16\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Two men have pleaded guilty to plotting to target Tube passengers in a text message scam using homemade &#8216;SMS blasters&#8217; hidden inside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SMS-blasters.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85361,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85359\/revisions\/85361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}