US Jails Telemarketing Fraudster
A scammer who defrauded elderly American computer users by tricking them into believing that their computers had suffered a cyber-attack will be spending the next three years in federal prison.
Himanshu Asri, of Delhi, India, took part in a five-year telemarketing scheme that conned around 2,000 computer users, most of whom were seniors.
The 34-year-old fraudster operated the call center in India that played an integral part in the Tech Fraud deception.
Under the scheme, Asri arranged for fraudulent pop-up advertisements to appear on computer users’ screens. The ads falsely claimed that malware had been detected on the computer and advised the user to call a phone number for assistance to remove it.
Telemarketing fraud scheme: Indian sentenced to 3 years in jail in US
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Indian national sentenced to three years in US federal prison for call centre fraud
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