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YouTubers set trap for crime ring targeting seniors, resulting in 25 arrests

Federal agents have disrupted a long-running fraud scheme targeting seniors, arresting 25 members of a Chinese criminal gang over the past week. The twist? The agents were assisted by YouTubers who set and sprang the trap on the fraudsters, who are charged with stealing $65 million from seniors nationwide.

The criminal group, made up of Chinese nationals — many in the U.S. illegally — worked closely with India-based scam call centers to threaten seniors to return refund money that they had not actually received.

One of the victims of the fraud, which has been going since 2019, was a details ⇒

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