Information for Victims in Large Cases
U.S. v. Jagmeet Singh Virk
Virk and his co-conspirators engaged in a scheme to defraud by making false representations to consumers through “pop-up” warnings on their computers. The warnings falsely claimed to detect computer viruses or other security issues and instructed consumers to call a telephone number to fix the purported computer problems. The calls were routed to a call center in the Republic of India, where NTS IT Care, Inc. and NTS Global Services Pvt. Ltd. “sales representatives” used high-pressure tactics to deceive consumers into purchasing fictitious computer support services. Through these deceptive tactics, “sales representatives” convinced consumers to purchase fake and expensive “technical support” packages.
United States v. Joseph Sullivan
Failure by former Uber CSO, Joseph Sullivan, to disclose 2016 breach to affected UBER drivers. Hackers revealed that they had accessed and downloaded an Uber database containing the personally identifying information “PII” of approx. 600,000 drivers.
U.S. v. Lewis Wallach
Lewis Wallach was charged by a criminal information filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on September 29, 2020. The information alleges that Wallach was the former CEO of a Marin-based company known as Professional Financial Investors, or PFI. Wallach is charged in the information with one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
United States v. Ahmad Abouammo et al.
Defendants were charged with acting as agents of the Saudi government without notice to the Attorney General for their roles in the unauthorized access of Twitter accounts of users who had publicly renounced the Saudi government. Defendants Abouammo and Alzabarah were employees of Twitter and were provided user names that were of interest to the Saudi government by a foreign official/representative of the Saudi Royal Family.
U.S. v. Brandon Demond Frere
Fraudulent student loan forgiveness program that operated from 2014 through November 2018.
United States v. Dmitry Dokuchaev et al.
Four defendants were charged with the hacking of several mail service providers including Yahoo, Google and Yandex (Russian based server) on behalf of the Russian Federal Security Service, a/k/a the “FSB.. Defendants were also successful in obtaining user login information through spear phishing techniques.
U.S. v. Elizabeth Holmes, et al.
Elizabeth Homes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani are charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. According to the indictment, the charges stem from allegations Holmes and Balwani engaged in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors, and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients. Both schemes involved efforts to promote Palo Alto, California based Theranos. Theranos is a private health care and life sciences company with the stated mission to revolutionize medical laboratory testing through allegedly innovative methods for drawing blood, testing blood, and interpreting the resulting patient data.