Washington: A US court has sentenced two Indians to 27 months in prison for cheating US citizens. He has been convicted of receiving more than $600,000 from US citizens through wire fraud.
District Judge Joseph Rodriguez of a federal court in New Jersey sentenced Zeeshan Khan (22) and Maz Ahmed Shamsi (24) to 27 months in prison on Tuesday. Both had already been convicted in the ‘wire’ fraud case. He had accepted his crime.
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Acting US Attorney Rachel A Honig said Shamsi and Khan were charged with fraudulently receiving US$618,000 via “wire transfer” from 19 people across the country. ‘Wire transfer’, bank transfer or credit transfer, is a method of ‘electronic fund transfer’ from one person or institution to another.
According to court documents, robocalls were made to the victims using some call centers located in India. Callers pretended to be officials from agencies of the Social Security Administration, the FBI or the Drug Enforcement Administration and threatened to implicate the victim in legal or financial lawsuits if they didn’t listen.
Sometimes they would ask the victim to speak to an ‘officer’ of another technology company and that ‘officer’ would gain access to the victim’s ‘personal computer’ to get his bank account details. (agency)