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Instead, these sites were a sophisticated dupe used by fraudsters to steal your data through what's known as a phishing scam. The tool used by these scammers to set up these fake websites had now been shut down thanks to an operation led by the Met Police.
If you've received a text or email, these will have only been sent between 4pm and 6pm on Wednesday, April 17. He says that if you receive a text or email outside of this window claiming to be from the Met Police, it could be a scam and should be ignored.If you received a letter, these were posted with a first class stamp on Wednesday, April 17.