Cyber criminals made fortune from ‘one time passport’ scam
Three cyber criminals made hundreds of thousands of pounds from a subscription service that enabled fraudsters to gain access to elderly victims’ online banking details, a court heard. Callum Picari, 23, along with Aza Siddeeque, 19, and Vijayasihurshan Vijayanathan, 21, plugged their illegal website on underfire app Telegram to ‘open the door’ for scammers. They ran www.OTP.Agency (One Time Passcode) which allowed crooks to circumvent banking anti-fraud checks and use customer’s card details to make online purchases. The basic package…