United States law enforcement authorities have charged 16 people in connection with a sprawling grandparent scam that defrauded elderly Americans out of millions of dollars.
The Justice Department said 11 of the 16 are from the Dominican Republic and have been named in the 19-count indictment with mail and wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering.
According to the unsealed indictment in New Jersey, the defendants engaged in a long-running "grandparent" or "family in need of bail" scam against seniors in the United States.
The scam was operated from call centers in the Dominican Republic.
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