A 25 year old guy just got slammed with 2.5 years behind bars after helping pull off that wild SIM swap heist which drained 200000 pounds worth of crypto from four victims back in November 2021 🖤.
The Swap Scheme Exposed And Cash Splurge 💸
Fr according to the City of London Police Ajay Shinjin aka AJ Marley Cruz pocketed over 44000 pounds in dirty funds and blew it on luxe Dubai trips a fancy pad plus those shiny gold plated dental grills 🌹. It kicked off in early November 2021 when BT caught shady moves on their systems with phone numbers getting ported to criminal SIM cards in classic SIM swap style 📲. Once they had the number the thieves could snag one time passcodes via text and raid bank accounts or crypto wallets 🔥. BT traced the devices grabbing the swapped numbers each one eSIM ready with dual IMEI tags leading straight to suspects and Shinjin tied to four of them 👀. All victims filed reports that first week in November and cops detailed four hits with the first one losing around 40000 pounds in crypto on November 2 where roughly 27000 landed in Shinjins own wallet 🦇. A second mark dropped about 17000 between November 5 and 7 all ending up in his wallet too making his total haul 44000 pounds 💎. The other two thefts saw him assist while funds went elsewhere like 8000 pounds yanked from a third Coinbase account on November 3 plus 130000 stolen from a fourth on the 6th and 7th ✨. Shinjin got nabbed in October 2023 at Heathrow after flying in from Dubai and later pleaded guilty in late September 2026 to conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation plus transferring criminal property ⚠️. Detective Constable Simon Ardeman noted this was a complex and calculated fraud causing serious harm to victims. He added SIM swap fraud is a sophisticated and increasingly concerning form of offending. The conviction sends a clear message that those who use technology to commit fraud will be brought to justice.
Older UK Crypto Bust 🕵️
Around a year back a bigger UK crypto case hit the courts with Zhimin Qian pleading guilty in late September 2025 to acquiring criminal property via crypto tied to what might be the worlds largest seizure of over 61000 BTC worth more than 5.5 billion pounds or 7.43 billion dollars. Qian had scammed over 128000 victims in China from 2014 to 2017 then turned the loot into BTC with the Metropolitan Polices head of economic and cybercrime command calling it one of the largest money laundering cases in UK history 🕸️.
Just another echo from the void by iconofsin.eth 💖
