Latvian police have arrested seven people over a cybercrime as a service operation that had been defrauding thousands of victims across Europe.

The group had set up technically sophisticated infrastructure for a series of fraud schemes, offering telephone numbers registered to people from more than 80 countries for use in criminal activities.

Fraudsters set up almost 50 million fake accounts for social media and communications platforms, which were then used for a range of different cybercrimes.

The law enforcement operation, codenamed SIMCartel, was carried out by authorities from Austria, Estonia, Finland, Europol and Eurojust and took place on 10 October. Law enforcement took down five servers and seized 1,200 SIM box devices and 40,000 active SIM cards.

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