Two men convicted for roles in $4.5 million international telemarketing scheme
A federal jury convicted two men Wednesday for their roles in a $4.5 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded victims in the United States from a call center in Costa Rica. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Manuel Chavez, of Miami, Florida, and Mark Oman, of Long Beach, Washington, participated in a fraudulent telemarketing scheme in which co-conspirators, who falsely posed as U.S. government officials, contacted victims in the United States to tell them that that...
Source: irs.gov