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Uber Helps End ‘Cruel and Malicious’ Scam Targeting Hundreds of Grandparents
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US Attorney: Uber Helps End Scam Targeting Grandparents
Uber has helped end a "cruel and malicious" grandparent scam that resulted in multiple charges against 13 people who investigators say bilked hundreds of elderly people out of more than $5 million dollars.
What the Public Ministry in the Dominican Republic has dubbed Operation Discovery and its phases 2.0 and 3.0 is known in the United States as the Grandparent Scam. The same criminal network, operating from call centers located in Dominican territory, deployed a scheme of deception to deprive hundreds of U.S. citizens, mostly elderly, of their millions of savings. In just over three years, Dominican authorities, in close coordination with the Fed…
A group of 13 people were charged in connection with a transnational scheme of fraud against older persons who allegedly involved a “call center” operation in the Dominican Republic, which tricked hundreds of older victims in the United States into believing that their grandchildren or other close relatives were in trouble and in need of money. This is clear from the charges announced today by the U.S. prosecution against the 13 people and in wh…
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