operation elaborate is the biggest fraud operation ever run in the UK we're taking the fight to those behind fraud the enablers who create the frauds that we're all familiar with in our daily life through spoof emails and texts and what have you we've sworn out over 160 warrants most of them most of them in London we're going to be making over 100 arrests and this is for tens of thousands of victims who've been defrauded by these people all based around the website ice Booth which has been selling fraud methodology and Technology to help people con people out of their money it's been a massive operation that's ongoing and after the initial phase of arrest the enormous amount of follow-up work but what this is going to do is help us understand how fraud Works differently and take us from being on the back foot where we're just reacting to reports in action fraud to being on the front foot where we're going after those who are organizing it and getting to the drivers behind the surging fraud we've seen across the country over many years foreign