An Indian college intern, Bishwajeet Kumar Jha, in the US, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for lending tech support to a telemarketing scam that duped close to two dozen people of nearly a million dollars. All the victims are from 58 years to 93 years and were duped of between USD 1,180 and USD 174,300.
Over three months, the conspiracy defrauded individuals of at least USD 937,280, according to justice department officials. Federal prosecutors allege that the victims, who believed that they had purchased technology support, were led to believe that money had been erroneously refunded to their bank accounts by the tech support company.
The victims were asked to return the inaccurate refund and directed to send the money to the defendant and others. The telemarketing scam was interrupted by Newport Police on November 20, 2018, when, as part of the investigation, detectives executed a court-authorized a search of the residence of Jha and the other members of the conspiracy.
As a part of the investigation, cops have seized several items pertinent to the operation of the scam. After the co-conspirators operating in Newport shared some of the proceeds of the scheme, large sums of money garnered from the scheme were transferred to a bank account in California. From there, the majority of funds were transferred internationally to India, China, and Singapore.
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