The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two local men separately yesterday for pretending to rent two residential units where a mainland gang was operating four fake base stations, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press briefing last night.
A fake base station is telecom equipment which sends out a signal, disconnecting mobile phone users in an area from their legitimate base stations and who then receive messages from the bogus one instead.
The gang operating the fake base stations in the two flats in Areia Preta and Nape districts paid the two local men 2,000 patacas per month and 5,000 patacas in total respectively for them to “rent” the two respective flats in their respective names, with the aim of avoiding detection by the police, according to Ho, who said that the police were still looking for the members of the gang.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers show reporters fake base station equipment seized from a flat in One Central in Nape during last night’s press briefing outside the luxury residential estate. Courtesy: TDM
