Security News > 2022 > June > Interpol busts 2000 suspects in phone scamming takedown

Sick of the unending stream of email and phone calls you receive from scammers claiming to represent your bank? Amazon? Microsoft? The tax office? The police?

Despite the not-very-threatening outcome when Rober later releases the insects inside a scam call centre where he has access to footage from the CCTV feed, the video gives a good visual indication of just how industriously and unrelentingly these scammers operate.

Police in participating countries raided national call centres suspected of telecommunications or scamming fraud, particularly telephone deception, romance scams, e-mail deception, and connected financial crime.

As Interpol notes, one of the scam back-stories used by these criminals is pretending to be from Interpol itself.

Of course, the reason that the "Investigators" are so familiar with the details of how the scammers operated and how much the victim lost is not the result of good police work, but simply that the fake "Police" are part of the same group that conducted the original scam.

As Mark Rober's video makes clear, busting 2000 suspected scammers and grabbing hold of $50m in ill-gotten gains is only a start.

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