Man jailed for 4 years for sending spam texts

By James Griffiths, May 23, 2014

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A Beijing man was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for sending more than 160,000 spam text messages. 

34 year old Zhang Guoling illegally occupied a frequency used by China Mobile's Beijing branch to send a huge amount of spam to mobile phone owners in the capital's Tongzhou and Chaoyang districts. 

This is the first case of illegal mass text messaging via a pseudo base station in Beijing.

[Image via HuffPo]

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