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UpdatedMon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:37 pm ET Reply A Providence man allegedly harvested multiple Social Security numbers, gained CARES Act unemployment out of Pennsylvania, and used Rhode Island ATMs to withdraw the funds. (Shutterstock) PROVIDENCE, RI — A Rhode Island man who called himself "Mr. Vacation" has been indicted on charges that he stole Social Security numbers to apply for CARES Act unemployment funds in Pennsylvania and for Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the SBA. A federal grand jury in Providence on Friday returned a 17-count indictment naming 28-year-old Courtney Hilaire, a P...

Between December 2019 and February 2020, eight people were scammed out of a total of $74,000, according to the indictment. A woman in Cranston was hit twice in the same day for $17,000 in February of 2020, according to the indictment. She was told that her grandson had gotten into a fight and would be in jail for seven months if she didn't pay the money. They also tried a third time. The U.S. Attorney gave the following account of an incident where investigators caught up to the men: "According to court documents, on February 18, 2020, a Little Compton resident reported to his local police d...

Monday, March 08, 2021   View Larger + A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging two Providence men with allegedly running a so-called “grandparent scam” in two states, fraudulently obtaining or attempting to obtain thousands of dollars in cash from at least nine elderly victims by claiming the money was needed immediately to assist a relative, typically the victim’s grandchild or child, who had purportedly been arrested or jailed. About Scam It is alleged in the indictment that members of the conspiracy sometimes posed briefly on the telephone as the victims’ relative...

The two men alleged defrauded victims in Tiverton and Portsmouth, among other communities.

Two Providence men accused of scamming senior citizens in Northborough and Shrewsbury, among other communities, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Providence charging them with running a so-called “grandparent scam” in two states.