Overview
- Inner London Crown Court jailed Kong Ji Chen for 24 weeks after he admitted possessing an SMS blaster used at Victoria station on July 1.
- Officers found the device in a large green suitcase and later confirmed identical phishing texts had reached their own phones at the scene.
- Prosecutors said the kit could broadcast bulk messages and harvest IMEI and IMSI identifiers, with control apps found on Chen’s iPhone.
- In a separate case, Shichao Wang received a one-year sentence for directing a vehicle-mounted blaster operated around central London by accomplice Hua Yong Xu on May 22.
- British Transport Police credited a commuter tip and cross-agency work with BT, Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, the NCSC and Ofcom, and urged the public to report suspicious texts to 7726 and behaviour to 61016.