Europol and Latvian police forces successfully carried out the "SIMCARTEL" operation

[FaceandBBC]

From the Europol statement:

- 26 search operations were conducted
- 5 people were arrested
- About 1200 SIM box devices managing 40,000 SIM cards were seized
- Hundreds of thousands of inactive SIM cards were seized
- 5 servers with illegal service infrastructure were seized
- 2 websites (gogetsms.com and apisim.com) providing illegal services were taken over by law enforcement and "splash" pages were displayed
- 431,000 euros in suspects' bank accounts were frozen
- 333,000 US dollars in suspects' cryptocurrency accounts were frozen
- 4 luxury cars were seized

 

[PeakIncels]

slowly coming back..

 

[Node]

Etniks

 

[Paravan]

nah thats pretty wild tho how many cards they had -- stored up and such!