A man from India living illegally in Georgia was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a wire fraud phone scam.
Nasruddin Bhai Nooruddin, 52, was arrested in August by the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office, which set up a sting at the house of a man who contacted them after suspecting he was being defrauded.
Nooruddin entered a plea of guilty in September 2024. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown sentenced him to 60 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $104,000 in reparations to his victims.
The victim stated that someone from Amazon called them and asked if they had purchased a $4,000 PC. The victim told the caller he didn’t. The caller indicated the victim’s assets had been frozen and that the Social Security Administration would contact them. The victim was later approached by what he assumed to be the Social Security Administration. The scammer informed the victim that they needed to remove all of their money from the bank and only keep $1,500 in their account. The victim followed the scammer’s instructions.
The crooks promised to pick up the money from the victim’s home for safekeeping. The victim sensed that something was wrong and wanted to report it. When the scammers came to the victim’s residence to collect the money, the Sheriff’s Office set up an operation to arrest them.
Georgia detained both 69-year-old Nooruddin and Chaturali Alauidin Roy. Roy is currently awaiting his trial.
North Carolina also charged Nooruddin with a May 2024 scam. Posing as a federal agent again, Nasruddin informed another victim that Ticketmaster had a data breach, that the victim was among the affected accounts, and that they needed to withdraw all of their money and send it to him.
