Leave it to phone scammers to innovate new ways to be as annoying — and scummy — as humanly possible. The scammers walk or drive around with the devices, firing out a ludicrous volume of SMS messages that contain dangerous links. Last year, Thai police reported that one device was capable of sending 100,000 texts per hour. One advantage of using SMS blasters is that they can impersonate any sender. “The 2G fake base station is then used to send… malicious SMSes to the mobile phones initially captured by the 4G false base station,” Mc Daid told Wired.