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The site set up in 2021 allowed criminals to pay a monthly fee to create fraudulent websites that appeared to be those of legitimate banks, healthcare agencies or postal services but were designed to steal users’ personal information.
Police officers are seen outside a house after a raid searching for suspects on July 1, 2007, in Liverpool, England. A website that allowed international cyber fraudsters to trick up to 70,000 British victims into revealing personal information such as bank account details and passwords has been infiltrated and disrupted, London police said Thursday. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
The site provided templates and a how-to lesson for less tech-savvy users to use profiles of 170 companies to set up some 40,000 scam sites.
The tutorial ended with a robotic voice saying: “Stay safe and good spamming.”
Police have notified as many as 25,000 U.K. victims that their data was compromised.
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