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โ Europol raided an office in Latvia few weeks ago and what they found inside is hard to believe.
โ Latvia's counterterrorism unit OMEGA smashed through the doors with flashbang grenades.
โ Inside were 1,200 SIM box devices stacked floor to ceiling. 40,000 active SIM cards. Connected to 80 countries simultaneously.
โ They were running two websites, Gogetsms and Apisim where criminals could rent a phone number from any country on demand.
โ Those numbers were used for phishing, bank fraud, investment scams, extortion, and migrant smuggling.
โ 3,200 confirmed fraud cases in Austria and Latvia alone.
โ $5.8 MILLION in confirmed losses.
โ Police seized 4 luxury cars, $470,000 in frozen bank accounts, and $290,000 in crypto.
โ 7 people were running the entire operation.
โ The operation was called SIMCARTEL.
โ 49 MILLION fake accounts were created using their service.
The same apps that make you jump through 6 verification steps just to log in.
49 million fake accounts got through while you were still waiting for your SMS code.