𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗘. – Europol raided an office in Latvia few weeks ago and what they found inside is hard to believe. – Latvia's counterterrorism unit OMEGA smashed through the doors with flashbang grenades. – Inside were 1,200 SIM box devices stacked floor to ceiling. 40,000 active SIM cards. Connected to 80 countries simultaneously. – They were running two websites, Gogetsms and Apisim where criminals could rent a phone number from any country on demand. – Those numbers were used for phishing, bank fraud, investment scams, extortion, and migrant smuggling. – 3,200 confirmed fraud cases in Austria and Latvia alone. – $5.8 MILLION in confirmed losses. – Police seized 4 luxury cars, $470,000 in frozen bank accounts, and $290,000 in crypto. – 7 people were running the entire operation. – The operation was called SIMCARTEL. – 49 MILLION fake accounts were created using their service. The same apps that make you jump through 6 verification steps just to log in. 49 million fake accounts got through while you were still waiting for your SMS code.