All 24 suspects nabbed as part of phone scam ring have pled guilty, DOJ says

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...s-pled-guilty/

Federal prosecutors said recently that the last of 24 US-based defendants have pleaded guilty as part of the takedown of a massive phone-based scam that spanned all the way to India.
Miteshkumar Patel?s guilty plea, signed on November 13, marks the last of the 24 men, while 32 more suspects remain at large in India.

Over a year ago, federal authorities announced that 56 people and six companies had been indicted on various fraud charges involving phone call scams purportedly coming from the Internal Revenue Service and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.

If victims didn?t pay up, the callers threatened them with arrest, deportation, or heavier fines. Related scams involved fake payday loans and bogus US government grants, according to the 2016 criminal complaint.

so no more phone scammers ?

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Death sentence !!!!

'kin indian scammers a rife here in AU, from helstra, windoz to the ATO, and the ppl the target are usually older, non tech savvy pensioners