The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) created an international strike force to crack down foreign-based scammers targeting American seniors.
On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr said the DOJ established a joint law enforcement initiative called the Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force. Its primary focus is to investigate and prosecute individuals and entities associated with foreign-based fraudulent schemes victimizing elderly Americans.
The strike force is composed of prosecutors and data analysts from the DOJ’s Consumer Protection Branch, prosecutors with six U.S. Attorney’s Offices, FBI special agents, Postal Inspectors, and other law enforcement personnel. They will work together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and industry partners who made commitment to stop those defrauding American seniors.
U.S. regulators have already charged a number of individual and entities involved in telemarketing, tech support, Ponzi scheme and other illegal activities that cheated senior citizen
