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'Bro delete the chat': Feel the panic shortly before cops bust major online fraud ring

ID: 434d6e5a-919a-50cf-a61b-7ca95561af15

STIX ID: report--434d6e5a-919a-50cf-a61b-7ca95561af15

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2025-01-29

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Connor Jones

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The report describes the NCA disruption and prosecution of OTP Agency, an online criminal service that provided automated call-bots and crafted scripts to socially engineer victims into revealing one-time passcodes (OTP/MFA) for banking and telecom accounts; the service reportedly had ~3,000 subscribers and was used to make over 65,000 automated calls that targeted ~12,500 people between 2019 and March 2021, resulting in arrests and sentences for the operators.

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