Met leads UKs biggest ever fraud operation to dismantle spoofing website

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Met leads UK's 'biggest ever' fraud operation to dismantle spoofing website

The fraud website iSpoof, operated by scammers using false identities, has targeted more than 200,000 potential victims in England alone.

Date - 24th November 2022
By - Cash Boyle

A fraud website which cost its victims tens of millions of pounds has been dismantled courtesy of an international policing operation led by Scotland Yard. The Met Police's cyber and economic crime units, together with Europol, Eurojust, the...

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