Comment by SanjayMehta
5 months ago
There was at least one SIM farm which was installed in a delivery type van and driven around. This was to avoid being detected as a stationary device.
5 months ago
There was at least one SIM farm which was installed in a delivery type van and driven around. This was to avoid being detected as a stationary device.
Clever! Also far more risky because it would require near constant attention.
Plus, you can leave an apartment unattended - a van being driven has a big weak link in the chain that has to push the gas and brake pedals.
Nothing stopping you from parking the van and just moving it every few hours. Put a some plumbing decals on the side and nobody will look twice at it.
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An unattended apartment can raise red flags. A van however, in most jurisdictions even if you end up in a police checkpoint, they may not force you to reveal what is in your van.
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They were detected inadvertently. Telco fraud management looked for stationary farms. This gang was detected because an engineer spotted the pattern in a debug log.
HP if memory serves me right. Around 20 years ago.
Put the sim farm stuff in a non-metalic box, wired to the 12v system, earn some extra money while driving a delivery job.
Assuming you have carrier diversity on your sims, you could likely manage good enough backhaul over the sims for the control layer. At least for grey market SMS; grey market voip might need more consistent networking. Grey market VPN, eh... variable conditions might help customer traffic be considered mobile.
Sim farm or SMS blaster? SMS blaster in van would make more sense, detecting a moving sim farm would be easier than a stationary one.