Police swoop at airports as enormous website scam operation cracked

A UK-founded website used to defraud victims on an industrial scale has been infiltrated leading to scores of arrests around the world, the Metropolitan Police has said. As many as 70,000 UK victims were tricked by the site's scams, which obtained 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 PINs globally.

LabHost even provided templates and an easy to follow tutorial allowing would-be fraudsters with limited IT knowledge to use the service. At the end of the tutorial, a robotic voice told fraudsters: "Stay safe and good spamming." Shortly after the platform was seized and disrupted, 800 users received a message telling them that police "know who they are and what they've been doing". Police hope they can dissuade former LabHost subscribers from further offending by creating the same level of fear about their information as their victims.

"In addition to the financial impact, it undermines the public's confidence in the tools and technology they need to use in daily life. Our collective approach should ensure suspects feel that same level of distrust in their own criminal environment." "Online fraudsters think they can act with impunity. They believe they can hide behind digital identities and platforms such as LabHost and have absolute confidence these sites are impenetrable by policing.

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