In the first ever joint operation between Europol and the Specialised Cybercrime Centre of Ameripol (an organisation for police cooperation in the Americas, currently made up of 33 police forces in 27 countries), an international criminal network was dismantled that had been running a phishing-as-a-service platform for unlocking mobile phones. In five years of operation, more than 2,000 unlockers registered and used the services to unlock more than 1.2 million phones, affecting more than 480,000 victims worldwide.