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NEWS: UK trio behind £380 a month ‘crime as a service’ website for fraudsters sentenced

Callum Picari (left), Vijayasidhurshan Vijayanathan (top right) and Aza Siddeeque (bottom right)

By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent

THREE men have been sentenced for running a subscription-based website that enabled criminals to bypass banking anti-fraud checks.

Callum Picari, 23, from Essex, and Vijayasidhurshan Vijayanathan, 21, and Aza Siddeeque, 19, both from Buckinghamshire, operated the website OTP.Agency. OTP stands for “one-time passcode,” which is a key component of multifactor authentication.

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