Ever wondered how they send you spam texts?

A Chinese national was behind a ‘highly sophisticated’ phishing scam to harvest bank account details with a mobile scanner, a court heard. Shichao Wang, 33, was the ‘controller’ of portable state-of-the-art equipment which sent spam messages to mobile phones. The equipment, referred to as an ‘SMS Blaster’, is driven around in a vehicle to various locations whereupon it latches onto phones in the area. Huge clusters of messages are then sent to users of each mobile phone asking them to…