Dozens arrested and thousands contacted after scammer site taken offline

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LabHost, a one-stop shop for aspiring fraudsters, tricked as many as 70,000 victims in the UK alone.

Dozens of people around the world have been arrested after police disrupted a UK-founded website scamming victims on an industrial scale. LabHost, a site set up in 2021, tricked as many as 70,000 UK victims, obtaining 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 PINs worldwide, the Metropolitan Police said. It was created by a criminal network and enabled more than 2,000 users to set up phishing websites designed to steal personal information such as email addresses, passwords and bank details.

Detectives have also contacted up to 25,000 UK-based victims to tell them their data has been compromised.

 

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