Reported: Ahmedabad call center network AMDC (Other)
Compiled by ScamMarketCap from public recordsHappened Oct 27, 2016United States
Call centers in Ahmedabad, India, phoned people across the US posing as officials from the IRS and US Citizenship and Immigration Services, threatening arrest, imprisonment, fines or deportation unless they paid supposed debts. US-based co-conspirators laundered the money through prepaid debit cards and wire transfers. US officials said at least 15,000 people lost more than $300 million.
On 27 October 2016 the US Justice Department unsealed an indictment in Houston charging 61 people and companies, including five call centers in India, with crimes including wire fraud, money laundering and impersonating US officials. By July 2018, 24 US-based defendants had been sentenced, with prison terms of up to 20 years. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, who ran call centers including HGlobal, was extradited from Singapore in 2019, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in November 2020. Charges against other India-based defendants were then still pending.
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