The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested a woman from the mainland on Tuesday night for operating fake base stations in three residential flats in Nam Van and Nape, while nine people were nabbed for staying in suspected illegal inns, PJ spokeswoman Lei Hon Nei said during a special press announcement right after the 10 arrests.
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.
According to Lei, the 31-year-old fake base station operator surnamed Chen told the police that she is unemployed. The personal information of the nine other people taken in for questioning was not released by Lei.
Judiciary Police (PJ) officers show the evidence seized from one of the fake base stations in a residential flat in Nape on Tuesday night. Courtesy: TDM
