Japan busts fake cell tower used in phishing scheme targeting Chinese tourists
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Japan busts fake cell tower used in phishing scheme targeting Chinese tourists

By November 10, 2026

A Chinese man was referred to prosecutors on Monday for allegedly disrupting a major mobile carrier’s services in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district with a rogue cell tower device, with police investigating possible links to a phishing scheme using illegal radio signals.
Yu Hai, 31, an unemployed resident of Tokyo’s Kita ward, was arrested on Saturday allegedly in the act of operating a base station without a licence, using the device from a car parked on a Ginza street to emit radio signals to…

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3373878/japan-busts-fake-cell-tower-used-phishing-scheme-targeting-chinese-tourists

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