by David O. Klein
In yet another fraudulent scheme targeting the elderly and vulnerable, two men recently pleaded guilty to running an international telemarketing sweepstakes campaign that defrauded its victims of more than $9 million. According to a Department of Justice ("DOJ") press release, from a call center in Costa Rica, the criminals used what is known as Voice-over-IP technology to conceal their physical location. This enabled them to dupe victims into believing that the phone numbers that they called were answered in the United States, when in fact they were routed to a call center in Costa Rica.
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