UK Police Arrest 142 In Biggest Global Crackdown On Phone Scammers
NDTV
Police believe organised crime groups are linked to the website which enables users to access software tools to illicitly obtain victims' bank account funds and commit other fraud.
UK police on Thursday said their biggest ever counter-fraud operation had disrupted an international criminal network targeting hundreds of thousands of victims in millions of spam phone calls.
The Metropolitan Police spearheaded the 18-month global probe into the iSpoof.cc website, working with Europol, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies worldwide.
A total of 142 people have been arrested, including one of its alleged London-based administrators. Suspects were arrested in Australia, France, Ireland and the Netherlands, while servers were shuttered in the Netherlands and Ukraine.
UK police believe organised crime groups are linked to the website and its tens of thousands of users. The site enables users to access software tools to illicitly obtain victims' bank account funds and commit other fraud.
