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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Anthony France

Chinese student who used a phone mast ‘blaster’ in car to send HMRC scam texts to thousands is jailed

A Chinese student has been jailed for using a portable phone mast to blitz every nearby mobile phone with scam texts from the taxman.

Scammer Ruichen Xiong, 22, drove around London in his black Honda CR-V with the “SMS blaster” in the boot.

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