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A Chinese national has admitted to participating in a fraud and money-laundering scheme that targeted thousands of elderly people across the United States.
Jiandong Chen, who also went by “Little Tiger,” is the second person charged in a five-defendent indictment in which members operated a series of technical support, bank impersonations, government impersonations and refund scams that targeted senior citizens.
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Victims would receive unsolicited phone calls, emails, and pop-up ads that directed the victims to call a phone number. Those phone numbers belonged to scam call centers based in India, according to a news release from the United States…
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