By Kimone Witter
A Jamaican woman is facing up to 30 years in a US prison after she admitted creating a series of fraudulent debt relief companies.
These companies tricked victims into paying processing fees and disclosing sensitive personal identifying information.
Sereika Savariau, also known as Sereika Savariau-Goodison, pleaded guilty in a Federal court on Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution.
She is to be sentenced in September 19.
Savariau, 37, was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2021 and extradited from Jamaica to the United States in September 2023.
As part of her guilty plea, Savariau admitted to making false representations to US citizens in the debt relief scam which ran from at least June 2016 to September 2018.
More than 50 individuals sent money to conspirators because of the scheme, most commonly through Western Union, believing the funds were processing fees.
Conspirators also fraudulently used some of the victims' personal identifying information for other illegal purposes.
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