FBI shuts down India call centre it claims defrauded elderly in US of ‘millions of dollars’

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday said that it had shut down a call centre operating in India that allegedly defrauded hundreds of elderly persons “out of millions of dollars through tech support scams”.

The law enforcement agency also said that two senior executives – 42-year-old Adam Young from Miami, Florida, and 33-year-old Harrison Gevirtz from Las Vegas, Nevada – have admitted to “turning a blind eye” to the alleged malpractice that was allegedly being enabled by their business.

The FBI stated that Young and Gevirtz had pleaded guilty to operating a business that provided services related to telecommunications, including telephone numbers, call routing services, call tracking and call forwarding services, to customers they knew were engaged in tech-support fraud schemes.

These schemes targeted persons in the US and abroad, added the federal agency.

?#BREAKING: #YourFBI has shut down a call center operation in India that defrauded hundreds of elderly victims here in the U.S. & abroad out of millions of dollars through tech support scams, & two senior executives who operated a business that enabled it, have just admitted to… pic.twitter.com/zlSWOspKQ7— FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) May 20, 2026

The FBI said that Young and Gevirtz are scheduled to be sentenced on June 16.

The investigation that concluded in the executives pleading guilty had begun...

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