7 people. 1 office. 49 million fake accounts.
Latvian police raided a SIM farm running 1,200 devices and 40,000 active SIM cards connected to 80+ countries. Every fake WhatsApp account, every phishing text, every scam call — this is where it starts.
Europol coordinated with Estonia, Austria, and Finland to shut it down. Servers seized, $500K frozen, all seven arrested.
This was one operation. There are hundreds more still running.
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