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29-Year-Old Runs SMS Fraud on 800,000 Mobile Devices

25
Jun
2014

Nguyen Tuan Anh, a Vietnamese citizen from Hanoi, delivered mobile apps to about 800,000 phone owners, which would surreptitiously send short text messages to premium numbers. As a result of the business, the fraudster raked in more than $420,000/308,500 in about a year. Anh was the head of the sales department in a Vietnamese company and the apps offered to the mobile users contained adult content. Once the malicious apps were installed on the phone, they would start se…

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