Feds: Telemarketing ring in India ran scam through Gold Bar

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GOLD BAR — A Gold Bar woman funneled tens of thousands of dollars to India in an elaborate telemarketing scam that targeted the elderly, according to a civil injunction filed last week in federal court.

A Texas man, 49, learned of the scheme when his father became so sick he couldn’t speak during a trip to Mexico in January 2018.

The son was granted power of attorney to pay bills, and found over the past months his father wired almost $85,000 to VCare USA LLC and affiliated companies, according to a letter the son submitted to U.S. District Court in Seattle.

Cold callers had warned the elderly man that his computer had been hacked, and he would need to pay for technical support to clean up the infected network. Sometimes the withdrawals were as small as $15, or as large as $5,000.

The phone calls kept coming until he died in December.

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I received a few of these calls. One time I hung on and spoke to a guy with an Indian accent. I strung him along till he finally got upset and went on a expletive laden tirade.

Made me feel good to waste his time.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Hey folks,

one can buy mailing or phone lists from Experian Credit Services. Oh btw,you can have it customized to your needs.

Anyone who worked a Boiler Room knows of these sources.

[More_Cowbell]

2. My elderly mother paid $400 last month to one of these operations

Luckily, she's lost her gmail password so many times that I gave my own phone number for the "rescue" texts (she doesn't text) and I was alerted when she tried to give the scammers her email password. Her credit card company stopped the payment before it went through. She thought she was talking to Microsoft.

[3Hotdogs]

3. My friends got the "grandson in trouble" call.

"Your voice sounds different."

"Yeah, I'm in the hospital I.C.U. and can't talk very well." --- and on and on.



They suspected it was a scam and while the call was in progress, used another phone and called his cell phone number to verify he was o.k.