The US Department of Justice has announced a seven-year sentence for the leader
of a scam center that exploited elderly victims by remotely accessing their
computers and convincing victims to pay for fake computer support services.
of a scam center that exploited elderly victims by remotely accessing their
computers and convincing victims to pay for fake computer support services.
From around March 2015 through July 2018, Vinoth Ponmaran led a criminal fraud
ring based in the U.S. and India that carried out a technical support fraud
scheme targeting elderly victims across the US and Canada.
Classic tech-support scam
“The Fraud Ring’s primar
