US court order brings down the shutters on tech support scheme impacting the elderly Action bars operation of US-registered firms linked to Indian call centre December 31, 2020 https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/...-on-tech-support-scheme-impacting-the-elderly DoJ: District Court Enters Permanent Injunction Shutting Down Technical-Support Fraud Scheme
"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... Asri and his co-conspirators tricked their victims into handing over at least $940,995.74..." https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-jails-telemarketing-fraudster/
