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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 nabbed 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.
Met Commissioner Mark Rowley said the investigation signalled \"a different approach\" to criminals exploiting technology.
\"This is about starting from the organised criminals that actually drive and create the fraud that we see in the world around us,\" he told reporters.
Industrialised fraud
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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.
Around 40 percent were in the United States. More than a third were in the UK, targeting 200,000 potential victims there alone.
Fraud detection agencies have so far recorded £48 million ($58 million) in losses in the UK alone. Victims lost an average £10,000. The largest single theft was worth three million pounds.
Losses to victims worldwide are estimated at over £100 million.
\"Because fraud is vastly under-reported, the full amount is believed to be much higher,\" the Met said.
Those behind the site earned almost £3.2 million from it, the force added.
Only around 5,000 British victims have so far been identified.
However, the Met's investigation has yielded the phone numbers of more than 70,000 potential victims, who have yet to be contacted.
The force will attempt to reach them over the next two days, sending text messages directing those contacted to its website, where details can be safely logged.
\"What we're doing here is trying to industrialise our response to the organised criminals' industrialisation of the problem,\" Rowley added.
'Operation Elaborate'
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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 £150 and £5,000 for its services, according to the Met.
It enabled subscribers, who could pay in Bitcoin, to access so-called spoofing tools which made their phone numbers appear as if they were calling from banks, tax offices and other official bodies.
The mostly commonly imitated organisations include some of the UK's biggest consumer banks -- including Barclays, Halifax, HSBC<\/a>, Lloyds and Santander.
Combined with customers' bank and login details, illegally obtained elsewhere online, the criminals were then able to defraud their victims.
\"They would worry them (about) fraudulent activity on their bank accounts and tricked them,\" explained Detective Superintendent Helen Rance, who leads on cyber crime for the Met.
She noted that people contacted would typically be instructed to share six-digit banking passcodes allowing their accounts to be emptied.
The Met launched \"Operation Elaborate\" in June 2021, partnering with Dutch police, who had already started their own probe after an iSpoof server was based there.
A subsequent server operating in Kyiv was shuttered in September and the site was permanently disabled on November 8.
The previous day the Met had charged Teejai Fletcher, 34, of east London, with fraud and organised crime group offences.
He remains in custody and will next appear in a London court on December 6.
\"It's fair to say that he was living a lavish lifestyle,\" Rance said, noting that the investigation remained ongoing.
\"Instead of just taking down the website and arresting the administrator, we have gone after the users of iSpoof,\" she added.
Two other suspected administrators outside the UK remain at large, the Met noted.
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联合警察操作萧条电话骗子有针对性的数百万人
总共有142人被逮捕,包括其所谓的伦敦的管理员之一。嫌疑犯被逮捕在澳大利亚、法国、爱尔兰和荷兰,在荷兰和乌克兰服务器被关闭。
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伦敦警察厅发起为期18个月的全球调查iSpoof。cc网站,与欧洲刑警组织合作,联邦调查局和其他执法机构在全球范围内。
总共有142人被逮捕,包括其所谓的伦敦的管理员之一。嫌疑犯被逮捕在澳大利亚、法国、爱尔兰和荷兰,在荷兰和乌克兰服务器被关闭。
英国警方相信有组织犯罪集团与网站和它的成千上万的用户。该网站允许用户访问软件工具非法获得受害者的银行账户基金和提交其他欺诈行为。
警察局长马克·罗利说,调查表明罪犯利用技术“一种不同的方法”。
“这是关于从有组织的罪犯实际驱动和创建欺诈,我们看到在我们周围的世界,”他告诉记者。
工业化欺诈
伦敦警方——英国最大的——在今年8月表示,嫌疑人支付访问该网站,让全世界超过1000万诈骗电话。
大约40%是在美国。超过三分之一的英国,单独针对200000名潜在的受害者。
欺诈检测机构迄今记录£4800万(5800万美元)的损失仅在英国。受害者失去了平均£10000。最大的单一盗窃价值三百万英镑。
在全世界范围内,大约有受害者的损失超过£1亿。
“因为欺诈远远低报,全额被认为是高得多,”大都会说。
背后的那些网站获得将近£320万,力补充道。
迄今为止,只有大约5000名英国受害者被确认。
然而,遇到的调查取得了超过70000名潜在的受害者的电话号码,谁还没有联系。
力将试图达到他们在接下来的两天,发短信指挥这些网站联系,细节可以安全地记录。
“我们在这里做的是试图工业化应对有组织的罪犯的工业化的问题,”罗利补充道。
操作复杂的
iSpoof网站——被描述为“国际一站式欺骗商店”,成立于2020年12月至59000年在峰值之间的用户支付£150和£5000为其服务,根据满足。
它使得用户可以在比特币支付,获得所谓的欺骗工具使他们电话号码似乎打来的电话银行、税务办公室和其它官方机构。
最常模仿组织包括一些英国最大的消费者银行——包括巴克莱(Barclays)、哈利法克斯汇丰银行,劳埃德银行和桑坦德银行。
结合客户的银行和登录细节,非法获取网上其他地方,罪犯被骗取他们的受害者。
“他们会担心他们(大约)欺诈活动在他们的银行账户和欺骗他们,”解释侦缉警海伦兰斯,领导的网络犯罪。
她指出,人们通常会要求联系分享6银行允许清空他们的账户的密码。
大都会博物馆在2021年6月推出了“精心操作”,与荷兰警方合作,他已经开始了自己的调查后iSpoof服务器为基础。
随后服务器操作基辅9月被关闭,网站永久残疾在11月8日。
前一天遇到带电Teejai弗莱彻,34岁的伦敦东区,欺诈和有组织犯罪集团犯罪。
他仍被拘留,将于12月6日在伦敦一家法院出庭。
“这是公平地说,他是过着奢华的生活,”兰斯说,并指出,调查仍在继续。
”,而不只是网站并逮捕了管理员,我们已经iSpoof的用户后,”她补充道。
另外两个疑似管理员在英国以外仍然在逃,大都会博物馆。
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