The 60 defendants span all levels of the operation, including company owners, call center managers, telemarketers and brokers, who sold customer information to the fraudulent companies for $10 or $15 per name, according to charging documents.
The companies operated in Minnesota, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina and Arkansas.
Prosecutors allege that the defendants used fraudulent scripts to target vulnerable customers. The “renewal” script, for instance, involved telemarketers falsely claiming that…
