Telephone fraudsters calling from "tax authorities" arrested in Miami

Five Cuban citizens are arrested in Miami, Florida, on charges of telephone fraud. The investigation claims that the participants in the criminal scheme organized by them appeared to be employees of the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and illegally obtained more than $ 2 million.

In total, about one and a half thousand people became victims of the scam. According to the statement Ministries of Finance, who called, threatened people with arrests in case of failure to pay the amounts announced. Moreover, fraudsters demanded to transfer money using iTunes gift cards.

In total, the fraudulent scheme, which involved Cubans arrested in Miami, brought the organizers illegal income in the amount of $ 36,5 million, received from 6 with more than a thousand people. Each of them, on average, paid out $ 5,7 thousand.

“The scammers acted mercilessly. “So do we,” said Russell George, chief inspector Ministry of Finance on tax administration, which investigated these cases of telephone fraud since August 2013 of the year.

Deputy Inspector General Tim Camus called the scam "the largest" the IRS has encountered in the last 30 years.

Officials warned that the IRS never calls taxpayers to demand immediate payment.

Statement of criminal proceedings against Jennifer Valerino Nuñez, Dennis Delgado Caballero, Arnoldo Perez Mirabal, Yaritsa Espinosa Díaz and Roberto Fontanella Caballero were filed with the Minnesota, Texas and Arkansas State Attorney's Office, where the victims sent their payments.

Fraudsters in conversations with their victims claimed that they received their tax returns, but they need to verify personal information in order to process the submitted declarations. To do this, they were asked to first provide personal data, and then issue a transfer of funds to repay a non-existent debt.

According to Inspector Camus, this is “an old scam using modern technology.” The criminals hid the phone numbers from which they called. In this case, all the starsOnks were made from outside the United States.

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