Security News > 2021 > June > Scammer arrested for phishing operation, sent 25,000 texts in a day
The police has arrested an individual last week for sending fraudulent text messages to thousands of people to obtain banking details and defraud them.
The arrest took place on June 17 at a hotel in Manchester, UK, where the 21-years old fraudster had taken a room and used it as the headquarters of the phishing operation.
According to the police, the operation was quite large and could deliver tens of thousands of fraudulent messages every day.
Despite the size of the phishing operation, the man got caught when the hotel staff deemed him suspicious for carrying a large number of cables in a bag and alerted the police in Manchester.
People in the UK receiving suspicious text messages allegedly from Hermes should report the phishing attempt, contact the police online, or call 101.
Phishing kit expert JCyberSec noticed that the Manchester police did not remove the metadata in the image published with the press release.