Police have arrested dozens of suspected scammers and romance fraud operators involved in fraud networks across the UK and Nigeria in a series of raids this month.
The raids, under City of London Police’s Operation Seraphim, are being carried out as part of an investigation with financial crime unit the Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA), the National Crime Agency and the Nigerian Police Force’s cybercrime team.
In one raid, a man suspected of selling personal banking information online and enabling fraud through money laundering was arrested at his home in the Midlands, where two Rolex watches and £3,000 in cash were seized, the BBC reported.
Police raid an address in London as part of the City of London Police’s Operation Seraphim. Image credit: BBC
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