Fifteen individuals and companies must permanently stop their involvement in multi-million dollar fraudulent mailings targeting older adults, a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York ordered Monday, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The complaint alleges that, in the past year, the schemes with which the 15 were involved collectively grossed an estimated $4.8 million in fraudulent proceeds.
The defendants mailed or helped mail thousands of solicitations, made to look like individual notices, which falsely stated that recipients had won large sums of money or prizes but needed to pay a fee to claim the winnings, according to a complaint filed by the United States in November 2018.
“These permanent injunctions stop unscrupulous individuals and companies from conducting fraudulent solicitation schemes that targeted the elderly in our district and throughout the country and the world,” said U. S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue of the Eastern District of New York.
The enjoined defendants live in the United States, Canada and Germany.
