On May 19 2023, Tejay Fletcher, the head of a fraud service platform known as iSpoof, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
iSpoof provided users with the ability to clone the phone numbers of banks and other legitimate businesses, with the sole purposes of scamming people out of their money.
People like Carina - a lawyer- who’d been tricked into transferring over £7,000 of her own money to scammers who’d called her pretending to be her bank.
https://www.itv.com/news/2024-08-01/the-fraud-scammers-putting-people-out-of-pocket-by-cloning-phone-numbers