Gauteng police nab suspected syndicate found with thousands of fake sim cards

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Gauteng police pounced on 43 members of a suspected counterfeit SIM card manufacturing ring and arrested them on a string of charges. They will appear in court soon.

Officers arrested 43 suspects and found thousands of chips inside a house in the Johannesburg suburb of Gauteng

Police spokesperson Captain Mavela Masondo confirmed to Briefly News that the effort uncovered a computer room used to manufacture the chips— Police pounced on a group suspected of operating a suspected fake SIM card ring that duped unsuspecting victims out of money."The sim cards were from all the South African cellphone service providers," Mavela Masondo said.

" had some of the technicians from the network come to the scene to confirm that the SIM cards were imitations.""We found manufacturing equipment on the premises, and it they were using the computers to create them."Read alsoTshepiso Mametela is a seasoned journalist with eight years of experience writing for online and print publications. He is an evening/weekend editor at Briefly News.

 

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