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<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#291d20;font-size:14px"><strong>iSpoof website mastermind jailed for 13 years over UK’s biggest fraud sting, that stretched across the US, as well as several other countries </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#291d20;font-size:14px"><strong>Tejay Fletcher, who founded iSpoof.cc, was sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison by London&#8217;s Southwark Crown Court on Friday</strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#291d20;font-size:14px"><strong>Fletcher, 35, set up the online scam iSpoof.cc, described as &#8216;an international one-stop spoofing shop&#8217;, in December 2020 and had more than 59,000 users </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#291d20;font-size:14px"><strong>Police took down the online operation which for a fee enabled fraudsters to impersonate banks, tax offices and other official bodies</strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#291d20;font-size:14px"><strong>The giant phishing operation defrauded victims across the world of at more than $124.3 million [£100 million]</strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#291d20;font-size:14px"><strong>More than suspects, identified as &#8216;prolific users of he website&#8217; were also arrested in several countries</strong></h1>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Tejay Fletcher, [photo], founder the iSpoof website was sentenced to 13 years in prison by court in London UK, on Friday. The website was a giant phishing operation that defrauded victims across the world of more than $124.3 million since 2020</strong></p>



<p>An online fraudster who scammed his targets out of more than £100 million and spent it mainly on luxury cars has been jailed.<br>Tejay Fletcher, 35, who founded iSpoof.cc, will spend 13 years and four months behind bars, London&#8217;s Southwark Crown Court ruled Friday.</p>



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<p>The website, which was at the center of Britain&#8217;s biggest fraud sting, allowed scammers to pose as bank phone callers so they could raid the assets in the target&#8217;s bank accounts.<br>In the wake of a multi-agency sting involving the FBI, Europol, Eurojust and Australian agencies, investigators in UK and the Netherlands took down ispoof.cc, a website which allowed criminals to disguise their identity and make it appear as if they were calling from a bank.<br>Victims across the world were defrauded of at least $124.3 million [£100 million], the court heard, with at least £43 million from UK residents.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>The iSpoof.cc website was taken down in November and the administrator, Teejay Fletcher, arrested in east London, UK</strong></p>



<p>Fletcher bagged the &#8216;lion&#8217;s share&#8217; of nearly $4 million [£3.2 million], in cryptocurrency Bitcoin, taking home some $2.5 million, prosecutor John Ojakovoh said. <br>Fletcher, the administrator of the website was arrested at his home in East London in November 2022. More than 100 other suspects who police described as &#8216;prolific users of the website,&#8217; were also taken into custody in several countries.<br>With the loot he acquired property in east London property. The raid party recovered a Lamborghini, two Range Rovers, expensive jewelry and Rolex watches in his home.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>The iSpoof website gave scammers access to tools to pretend to be phone calls from trusted organizations such as banks and tax offices</strong></p>



<p>According to the Metropolitan Police, iSpoof &#8211; described as &#8216;an international one-stop spoofing shop&#8217; &#8211; was set up in December 2020 and had more than 59,000 users, who paid around $6,214 [£5,000], per month in Bitcoin to access its software. <br>The scam was on a global scale with 40 percent of the calls directed at US residents. The second largest chunk was the 30 percent aimed at UK residents.<br>Subscribers could pay in Bitcoin to use sophisticated tools to disguise their phone numbers as trusted ones, such as from banks, tax offices and other official bodies.<br>Some pretended to be some of Britain&#8217;s biggest banks such as Barclays, HSBC and Santander.<br>It was used to make 10 million phone calls between June 2021 and July 2022, with, at one point, 20 people being phoned every minute. <br>The largest single theft was $3.73 million [£3 million], while on average, each target lost $12,429 [£10,000]. <br>UK police alerted 48,000 alleged targets, but estimate that at least 200,000 people were victimized across the world. Tricksters would, following the calls, then illegally crowbar people&#8217;s bank and log-in details to defraud their victims.<br></p>

Mastermind behind iSpoof.cc website jailed for 13 years by UK court – the online operation enabled criminals to impersonate banks to defraud victims across the world of more than $124M
