An elderly man sent about US$5.3 million (S$7 million) to multiple accounts over more than a year, after he was told he could claim a purported inheritance of property in Singapore. The scammers then spent almost all of the money on items that included luxury goods at Louis Vuitton and at an Apple Store. A man from Georgia in the...
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He was brought before a federal court where he was ordered to be detained pending trial. He is expected to be brought before a federal court in New York at a later date. The elderly victim, who is a resident of Suffolk County in the state of New York, made the transfers to various bank accounts from April 2020 to December 2021.
Mr Breon Peace, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said the authorities would spare no effort to bring scammers who target the elderly to justice.
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