WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice on Thursday indicted 61 people and entities for alleged involvement in a $300 million fraud scheme in which India-based scammers impersonated Internal Revenue Service agents.
In the scam, people in a telephone call center network in India obtained personal information from data brokers to target at least 15,000 people with threats of fines, deportation or imprisonment if they did not pay fees while posing as IRS agents.