The Record reports:
Two men are facing years in prison for providing services to a tech-support fraud scheme in India that stole millions of dollars from American citizens.
Adam Young, 42, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony after they were accused of offering phone numbers, call routing services, call tracking tools and call forwarding services to India-based telemarketing fraudsters.
The two were key cogs in a scheme targeting the elderly and disabled with fake pop-up messages that tricked people into thinking their devices had been infected with malware. Victims were told to call phone numbers that were routed to call centers in India, where scammers forcefully urged them to pay hundreds of dollars for fake technical support services.
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