July 18, 2018
A federal judge in Houston on Wednesday afternoon sentenced to prison eight individuals for their roles in a multimillion-dollar call center scam that was based in India and defrauded U.S. residents out of at least $8.9 million.
November 14, 2017
An Illinois man has copped to a charge related to his purported role in laundering money that scammers at call centers in India fraudulently obtained from American victims by pretending to be Internal Revenue Service agents and other government officials, Texas federal prosecutors announced Monday.
July 20, 2017
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced two more guilty pleas from men copping to the money laundering end of a massive fraud involving Indian call centers impersonating tax and other officials to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from victims nationwide, bringing the number of guilty pleas to 13.
April 14, 2017
An Indian national who was among 55 individuals indicted in a massive call center fraud, involving impersonating tax and other officials to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from victims nationwide, has pled guilty to his role and agreed to be deported post-sentencing, federal prosecutors said Friday.