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In this Epoch Times article, Naveen Athrappully reports that a Chinese national received a lengthy federal prison sentence for leading a multimillion-dollar fraud and money-laundering operation that preyed on elderly Americans.
- Zhao Wang, also known as “Oscar,” was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison, equal to 12 years and 7 months.
- The Justice Department said Wang led a $27 million fraud and money-laundering scheme that targeted roughly 2,000 elderly victims across the United States.
- Prosecutors said Wang and four other defendants were involved in technical support, bank impersonation, government impersonation, and refund scams.
- Victims were reportedly contacted through unsolicited calls, emails, and pop-up ads that directed them to call numbers connected to India-based scam call centers.
- Once victims called, conspirators used social engineering tactics to gain trust, sometimes convincing them to install remote desktop software.
- One common tactic was a fake “refund” scam in which victims were told they had been over-refunded and needed to return money that they had never actually received.
- Victims were instructed to send money through wire transfers or bulk cash shipments via express mail.
- Prosecutors said Wang helped coordinate fake names and pickup locations, then used fake IDs to collect packages of cash sent by elderly victims.
- The case highlights once again how international fraud networks target vulnerable seniors while using technology, impersonation, and money-laundering pipelines to drain life savings.
Read the full story: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/chinese-national-sentenced-for-us-scheme-targeting-2000-elderly-victims-6023865?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily
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