Eight held in series of raids targeting scam text messages Top Story May 25, 2021 LONDON: Eight people have been arrested in a series of dawn raids targeting scam text messages.Officers from the dedicated card and payment crime unit (DCPCU), a City of London and Metropolitan Police unit, carried out warrants in London, Coventry, Birmingham and Colchester in a week of action. Eight men have been arrested on suspicion of fraud, for allegedly sending out fake messages asking people to pay a fee to retrieve a Royal Mail parcel. The scam messages, known as “smishing” texts, steal a victim’s personal and bank details by getting them to follow a link to a fake version of a trusted website.