The website iSpoof, used by criminals to make fake calls, has been taken down.
Police will text 70,000 people to warn them they have been victims of a banking scam in the UK's biggest anti-fraud operation.
An address in east London is alleged to have been at the centre of the service which police believe enabled fraud on a global scale.During the investigation, police obtained the numbers of victims but not their names and addresses.to go to the Action Fraud websiteDetectives are aware of the risks of using a text message to contact victims of fraud who may have been targeted through their mobile phones.
This allowed them to pose as employees of banks including Barclays, Santander, HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, First Direct, NatWest, Nationwide and TSB. Fraudsters paid between £150 and £5,000 a month in bitcoin to use the iSpoof service, contacting, at times, 20 people a minute, primarily in the USA, UK, Netherlands, Australia, France and Ireland.
The Met said investigators infiltrated iSpoof and began gathering information, including 70 million data records.
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