Overview
- Federal investigators announced this week that the FBI shut down an India-based call centre and that former CEO Adam Young and former CSO Harrison Gevirtz pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony for hiding their knowledge of the fraud.
- A multi-year probe that began in 2020 led to convictions of multiple India-based telemarketers and a former employee of the call‑routing company before the U.S. executives admitted their roles.
- Court filings say the scammers used deceptive pop-up virus warnings to push mainly elderly victims to call numbers routed to India where agents pressured them to pay for fake technical help and sometimes took remote control of victims’ computers.
- Documents allege Young and Gevirtz received repeated complaints from carriers, victims and law enforcement, failed to report the schemes, and in some cases advised customers on avoiding complaints and keeping fraud accounts active.
- The executives are due to be sentenced on June 16, 2026, and the case underscores growing cross‑border enforcement of telecom-enabled fraud while prompting warnings to check on older relatives and report suspicious calls to law enforcement.