The moment a suspect associated with a UK-founded website used to defraud victims on an "industrial scale" was arrested at an airport was caught on police bodycam footage.LabHost, a scammer site set up in 2021 by a criminal network, obtained 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 PINs globally.The site allowed users to set up phishing websites intended to trick victims into giving away personal information such as bank details, email addresses, and passwords.Authorities have arrested 37 suspects across the UK and globally, including at Manchester and Luton airports.Source: PA
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00:00You have been identified as involved in Labhost, an online phishing platform hosted at labhost.rulabhost.
00:20Select your desired scam page.
00:25If the installation takes more than 10 minutes, don't hesitate to message support, stay
00:29safe and good spamming.
00:34Labhost is an online criminal service which allows users to set up fraudulent websites
00:40in order to impersonate online services such as banking.
00:45We valued you as a customer ever since the day you joined.
00:49We've been collecting your data that whole time and now we've served it to police on
00:53a platter.
00:55Labhost was facilitating fraud on an industrial scale.
01:00The users of the fraud, it was a very low barrier to entry, so actually many of the
01:05people that were using Labhost weren't very technically skilled.
01:09Labhost enabled them to send phishing emails that send out fraudulent links for people
01:16and it harvested their data and that data would be used for onward frauds.
01:22We have the details of all of the criminals who have been using the service.
01:27We will be messaging them directly, we will be arresting many of them and we will be sending
01:32out a message that we've got their details, if they try and do this again we have their
01:35details and hopefully they will realise that there might be a low barrier of entry to this
01:40crime type but that also enables us to be one step ahead of them and to be able to arrest
01:45them and deal with them for this type of fraud.