Police uncover suspected SIM farm in East Midlands fraud crackdown

Police raided a suspected SIM farm in an East Midlands terraced house, finding hundreds of unused SIM cards and equipment for running many phone connections. The operation is part of a nationwide effort targeting fraud infrastructure, with more than one million compromised card details recovered so far.

The National Crime Agency says the haul may be the largest of its kind recovered in the UK, and eight people have been arrested across suspected sites. SIM farms can support phishing by letting criminals contact victims at scale; intelligence shared by VodafoneThree helped investigators locate suspected premises. SIM farms were criminalised last month, giving law enforcement additional powers to target infrastructure linked to fraud and cybercrime.