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UK Home Office and National Crime Agency Online Crime Centre launching the Online Crime Centre to crack down on fraud and disrupt cyber-criminal operations for Set to begin work

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The UK Home Office and National Crime Agency are launching the Online Crime Centre to disrupt cyber-criminal operations and fraud at source. The unit, set to begin work in April, will target the accounts, websites and phone numbers used to run scams. The move matters because it is aimed at overseas scam compounds and other infrastructure used to hit the British public at scale.

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  1. 09.03.2026 16:00 2 articles · 2mo ago

    UK announces Online Crime Centre to disrupt cyber-fraud

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    The UK Home Office and the National Crime Agency announced a new Online Crime Centre under the UK government’s expanded anti-fraud strategy to disrupt cyber-criminal operations at the source, including overseas scam compounds. The planned unit is set to begin work in April and will target the accounts, websites and phone numbers used by cyber-criminal gangs, while also supporting AI-based fraud detection, scam-baiting chatbots and the blocking of scam texts, freezing of criminal accounts and removal of scam social media accounts.

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