Two
men from Cambridge and two from Basingstoke were arrested last
Thursday as officers from the City of London Police searched six
premises in Cambridge, Basingstoke and North London, seizing a
large number of computer records and files.
Four other men were arrested in May in connection with the
investigation which was run by the economic crime department of the
City of London Police with assistance from the Serious Fraud Office
and the premium rate regulator, ICSTIS (the Independent Committee
for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information
Services).
The scam resulted in expensive telephone bills for the "winners"
– but few, if any, ever saw a prize, according to the police.
