ORLANDO – From a web of rented mailboxes in strip malls across Orlando, prosecutors allege, a cell of Chinese nationals operated one leg of a sprawling transnational fraud that stripped elderly Americans of more than two million dollars — persuading some they were investing in cryptocurrency or gold, and convincing many more that federal agents, big tech companies, or their own banks had detected a catastrophic breach in their accounts and that only immediate, secret fund transfers could save them.
Chinese Nationals Ran a Fraud Machine Out of Florida Mailboxes, Draining the Savings of Elderly Americans in Seventeen States: DOJ
