New police tactic–mobile phone spam

Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals–they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers’ mobile phones until they turn themselves in.

Officials in Hangzhou, the capital of China’s Zhejiang province, have developed a system which bombards mobile phones with pre-recorded voice messages, according to the official newspaper, the People’s Daily.

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