According to prosecutors, the conspirators placed phone calls from centres in and near Montreal between the summer of 2021 and June 4, 2024, as part of the scheme. — Pixabay
They sat in call centres in Montreal and targeted older Americans, claiming to be grandchildren in need of bail money after an arrest. In all, federal prosecutors said, more than two dozen Canadians defrauded hundreds of vulnerable Americans out of US$21mil (RM93.17mil) over three years in what authorities called a “Grandparent Scam”.
On Tuesday, the US attorney’s office in Vermont announced that 25 Canadian nationals had been charged with conspiring to defraud Americans in 45 states. All of those accused are from Ontario or Quebec, and 23 had been arrested in Canada as of Tuesday afternoon, prosecutors said.
