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“They don’t keep money, they spend it here and now.”

Dick Ajil Paulh Crttis is us around Los Bukian who are stacked with designer shoes and Bags. Thousands of items are piled into plastic containers on wooden shelves.

Things here have been sidelined by fisiend scams, some of which send scam texts – known as imished – to victims.

“They like to live a fiery lifestyle,” Curtis said. “We have somewhere between 8,500 and 10,000 items of evidence in one room,” he said, the results of the search and servile “presented by officers.

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These purchases are an indication of how much money they’re making from crime and what they’re spending.

The term “Smishing” is a combination of “SMS”, or “Silence message service” – back-end technology – and “feishing”.

FRADSPERS sends fake text messages – apparently from banks or trusted companies – to trick people into sharing personal information such as PIN numbers and PIN numbers. The intention is to solve them out of money.

Curtis is part of the crime unit and the paid intelligence unit – a team made up of officers from the city of London police and the metropolitan police service.

Even though they are forcing the London Police, the unit has a national wrinkle, and it is called by the ranking industry. It focuses on combining financial fraud.

“In the case of our speaker, the defendant was cleared on the basis of sending 15,000 messages over a period of five years.” He said.

A senior officer said that Rusan XOCHEN, a student from China who was tortured after the district around London this year, sent a message to tens of thousands of victims.

XOM was upped to 58 weeks in prison at London’s Crown Court in June after pleading guilty to fraud by representation.

According to it, half of the UK’s main users said they received a suspicious message between November 2024 and 2025 via text or imessage.

Gide C Rabinowitz, 64, lives in Newbury, Berkshire, and is a recent victim of smishing.

Just two months ago, the former, manager of the owner he was cheated from more than one thousand more than one thousand ponts after receiving the correct text message.

“I feel like a massive fool, like I’ve been violated,” she said.

“It really shook me. For a number of days after that it really left me. I felt very vulnerable and I didn’t know who.”

Mr Rabinowitz believed he had been contacted by his bank which reported suspicious payments on his account.

In fact, he got screwed by the scammer.

“Started with a text out of the blue asking if I recognized the transaction – true or not. The next two and a half hours I was out of tock by £1400.”

He added: “In the segment a lot of money and it’s also a feeling, to appear, because these people know who I am. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know where I live”. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know where I live”. They know who I am. They know who I am. They know where I live”. They know who I am. They know where I live.”

Scam text messages often target large companies such as utility companies, banks or supermarkets. They usually include links. Once the person submits there, they can be sent to a website that has multiple pages and asks for personal and financial information. The information can then be used to convince them to transfer money from their account.

Smishing is primarily done through two tools; SIM, which holds multiple SIM cards, allows criminals to bombard people with thousands of author texts.

The second one is what is called SMS blaster. It tricks mobiles into connecting with it, and then sends a large number of fraudulent texts in a matter of seconds.

Palangsal said “Smasishing Scamime has a serious effect on its victims”.

“Our telecom charter set out clear actions to secure SMS and reduce fraud in the telecoms sector”.

“We are also cracking down on Push Sims. Banning this tool used to send thousands of scam texts will shut down key tools for scammers and sellers and keepers safe.

The ban is expected to take effect late next year. It will make or supply SIM farms, without reason, illegal.

One IPhise Idea Criping is a difficult crime to solve and one that requires more education around fake text numbers.

“Smishing and it’s the same to the police because there is a lot of information from abroad and, even though it’s from inside the UK Martin,” Look executive to the cyber security center.

“So the king can participate in large-scale operations, we should not see the police as a strategic response to this.

“The strategic answer is for people to understand that serious businesses do not ask for money by text, and for businesses to find better ways to interact and verify issues”.

Advice from the simple police: Don’t click on links you don’t agree with.

If you believe you are a victim of fraud, Report to action fraud, Report to your Bank, and confirm the message to 7726 so the mobile network can allow further.

For more information BBC.co.uk/scamsafe where you can find a selection of resources

If you have been scammed or defrauded, details of help and support are available at BBC.co.uk/actionline