UK police say their biggest ever counter-fraud operation has disrupted an international criminal network that targeted hundreds of thousands of victims in millions of spam phone calls
"This is about starting from the organised criminals that drive and create the fraud that we see in the world around us," says Met Commissioner Mark Rowely.
Working with Europol, the FBI and other law enforcement worldwide, suspects were nabbed in the Netherlands, Australia, France and Ireland, while servers were shuttered in the Netherlands and Ukraine. "This is about starting from the organised criminals that drive and create the fraud that we see in the world around us," he told reporters.The London force — the UK's largest — said in the year to August, suspects paid to access the website and make more than 10 million fraudulent calls worldwide.
"Because fraud is vastly under-reported, the full amount is believed to be much higher," the Met said.Only around 5,000 British victims have so far been identified. "What we're doing here is trying to industrialise our response to the organised criminals' industrialisation of the problem," Rowley added.The iSpoof website — described as "an international one stop spoofing shop" — was created in December 2020 and, at its peak, had 59,000 users paying between $181 and $6,041 for its services, according to the Met.
Combined with customers' bank and login details illegally obtained elsewhere online, the criminals were then able to defraud their victims.
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