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What do you think? Help us improve The Times. We welcome your feedback, suggestions and ideas. Click here to send us your feedback. Need help from our Customer Services team? You can contact the team via the following channels:. Telephone: 0044 20 7711 1523. Police hunt thousands in identity fraud scam. Published at 12:01AM, June 9 2012. Police have begun a search for thousands of British suspects who used an online fraud factory to commit identity theft and mortgage swindles, The Times has learnt. Innocent Britons with excellent credit ratings had their identities cloned by the operators of Confidential Access (CA), a website that sold fake documents including driving licences, bank statements, passports and payslips to its subscribers. Scotland Yard said yesterday that it would hunt down the website s clients, numbering up to 11,000, after the masterminds were jailed for what a judge described as identity theft on an industrial scale. The organisers of the website, who were based in Britain and Spain, provided false addresses and created fictional businesses for their customers, who were either British or were seeking to commit fraud in this country. Detective Sergeant Christopher Richards, of the Metropolitan Police s economic and specialist crime unit, told The Times: It was basically a fraud factory, a continued conveyor belt of consistently produced fraud. If you were somebody using that site illegally, expect a knock at the door. If you sell or purchase false documents on the internet, the police will come looking for you. The Met is liaising with other forces, including Greater Manchester Police and Hampshire Constabulary, to trace customers who bought fraud packages for up to 5,500. Some have been brought to justice, including an NH. Fraud losses hit 73bn. Top lawyer faces jail. A flooded caravan park in western Wales: homes and caravans were evacuated. Several villages were hit by sudden overnight floods. Dozens rescued from Wales floods. Hodgson to defend Ferdinand omission. Roy Hodgson will go on the attack today by launching a strong defence of his decision to omit Rio Ferdinand from his European Championship finals squad. The England manager has chosen to hold an additional press conference in Cracow this afternoon in an attempt to bring an end to the controversy, which the FA fears could have overshadowed the build-up to England s opening match of the tournament, against France in Donetsk on Monday. Hodgson has not spoken publicly since the aftermath of England s 1-0 win against Belgium at Wembley seven days ago, when he refused to discuss potential replacements for Gary Cahill when the extent of the damage to the Chelsea defender s jaw was not yet known. He was then criticised for calling up Martin Kelly in preference to Ferdinand, with the Manchester United defender s representative, Jamie Moralee, describing it as a d. Last updated at 12:01AM, June 9 2012. Ferdinand: my England career over. Europe ready as Spain faces abyss. Spain is expected within days to seek tens of billions of euros in aid to bail out its crippled banks, becoming the fourth and by far the biggest country in the eurozone to demand a rescue. Finance ...