"US Authorities Seize iSpoof, a Call Spoofing Site That Stole Millions"

An international police operation has taken down an online spoofing service that helped cybercriminals impersonate trusted corporations and steal over $120 million from victims. iSpoof, which now displays a message stating that the FBI and US Secret Service seized it, provided "spoofing" services that allowed paying users to mask their phone numbers with those of a trusted organization, such as banks and tax offices, in order to carry out social engineering attacks. According to Europol, the website's services allowed those who signed up and paid for the service to make spoofed calls, send recorded messages, and intercept one-time passwords anonymously. Users could impersonate an infinite number of entities for financial gain and significant losses to victims. The Metropolitan Police in London, which began investigating iSpoof in June 2021 alongside international law enforcement agencies in the US, the Netherlands, and Ukraine, announced the arrest of the website's suspected administrator, Teejai Fletcher, on charges of fraud and organized crime. Fletcher was remanded in custody and will appear in court on December 6. The Metropolitan Police also used bitcoin payment records discovered on the site's server to identify and arrest another 100 iSpoof users in the UK. The site's infrastructure, which was hosted in the Netherlands but moved to Kyiv earlier in 2022, was seized and taken offline earlier this month in a joint Ukrainian-US operation. This article continues to discuss the takedown of the iSpoof website that allowed cybercriminals to impersonate trusted corporations to steal more than $120 million from victims.

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