September 01, 2003

Cellphone jamming scam exposed

The Register has a pretty good story that gave me a chuckle this morning.

It seems a gentleman in the UK was selling cellphone jammers to hotels, B&B and bars in an effort to drive customers to use expensive hotel phones instead of their own cell phones.

Quite ingenious if you ask me. Illegal. But ingenious. Apparently he was buying these in Asia and reselling them for 75 pounds and doing quite well. Till he got caught.

I don't know what makes me laugh about it. Not sure if its the unique use for jamming, or the fact he got caught. Funny either way. Personally, I think this would fly better in movie theaters. I am tired of cells ringing during the movie. Perhaps I need to pick one of these up and take it with me when I go see the Return of the King.

Posted by SilverStr at September 1, 2003 09:06 AM