{
  "id": 7703800,
  "title": "M’sian man, 28, drives around S’pore with ‘SMS blaster’ to send phishing messages, given 1 year & 9 months’ jail & S$1,500 fine",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/msian-man-28-drives-around-spore-with-sms-blaster-to-send-phishing",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-15T17:20:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mothership",
    "slug": "mothership",
    "url": "https://mothership.sg/2026/09/man-sms-blaster-phishing-messages-jail-fine/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In 2025, a 28-year-old Malaysian man named Ong Kak Seng was sentenced to one year and nine months in jail and fined S$1,500 for driving around Singapore with a device known as an SMS blaster. This device was used to send phishing messages, with the aim of obtaining victims' WhatsApp account login credentials to fraudulently obtain their personal information. Ong pleaded guilty to one charge of cheating, along with other charges under the Computer Misuse Act, and his sentence took into account the other charges.",
  "summary": "He informed his sister not to visit the webpage in any messages she received from his SMS blaster.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}