Jamaican national indicted in scam

contacted Andrewenforcement and returned to Hutchinson, an 82-year-old her. South Carolina man, claiming In announcing Ms. to be “Trooper Phillips” Huff’s arrest in April, Mr. investigating “discrepancies” Shapiro warned seniors in Mr. Hutchinson’s and their relatives to be bank account. wary of anyone calling

He told Mr. Hutchinson claiming to be an agent to send $25,000 to Ms. Huff, and asking that money be which he did in December sent somewhere. 2015. “If you know of a senior

When she got it, she sent or loved one who’s been $ 8,000 in a series of scammed, let us know,” he MoneyGram transactions said. “And if you’re called to another conspirator in by an ‘ IRS agent’ or ‘ FBI Jamaica, according to state agent’ or ‘Jamaican lottery agents. official’ — hang up the

Investigators said Ms. phone. It’s a scam. Call us Huff and others were involved and we’ll go after these in numerous frauds criminals wherever they against victims in Massachusetts, are.” South Carolina, Mr. Cain has been in custody Arizona, California and since April 21, when he elsewhere. was arrested on a state complaint

In one case, a 90-year-old in Fort Lauderdale, woman in Brighton, Mass., Fla., after agents learned he sent $4,000 to Ms. Huff as a was visiting the U.S. “tax payment” on a $3.5 He was charged by complaint million lottery prize she in federal court in was told she had won. In another, Pittsburgh the following a 96-year-old Arizona month. woman sent $25,000 in cash to Ms. Huff; the package was intercepted by law enforcement