SOUTHWARK—A cyber criminal who ran a website which enabled fraudsters to trick 200,000 people around the world—many of them elderly—out of £100 million has been jailed for 13 years and four months.
Tejay Fletcher, 35, was the co-founder and administrator of iSpoof, a website which became a “fraud shop” for scammers who defrauded around £43 million out of British residents and millions more from people in the United States and elsewhere.
Last month Fletcher pleaded guilty to making or supplying articles for use in fraud, encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, possessing criminal property, and transferring criminal property.
Software tools provided by iSpoof allowed criminals to mask their own phone numbers and trick victims into thinking they were being contacted by genuine staff from banks, tax offices or even fraud departments, who would ask for their account details or bank card details in order to steal cash….