Two former executives of a U.S.-based call tracking and analytics company have pleaded guilty to federal charges for knowingly facilitating India-linked tech support fraud schemes that defrauded American victims of millions of dollars over several years.
Adam Young, 42, a former CEO from Miami, Florida, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, a former CSO from Las Vegas, Nevada, each pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony in federal court in Providence, Rhode Island. Both are scheduled for sentencing on June 16, 2026.
From approximately 2016 through April 2022, Young and Gevirtz operated a business providing telecommunications infrastructure, including telephone numbers, call routing, call tracking, and call forwarding services to customers they knew were running tech support fraud schemes targeting victims across the United States and internationally.
The fraud followed a well-documented attack pattern: deceptive pop-up messages warned computer users their systems were infected with malware or viruses, prompting victims to call a displayed phone number.
Those calls were routed to India-based call centers, where agents convinced victims to pay hundreds of dollars for unnecessary or entirely fictitious technical support services.
In several instances, call center agents remotely accessed victims’ computers to harvest personal and financial data.
The investigation, which began in 2020, resulted in the conviction of five India-based fraudsters, Sahil Narang, Chirag Sachdeva, Abrar Anjum, and Manish Kumar, along with Jagmeet Singh Virk, convicted separately in the Northern District of California.
These individuals operated call centers in India that leveraged Young and Gevirtz’s infrastructure to route fraudulent calls.
Court documents reveal that Young and Gevirtz went beyond passive facilitation; they actively advised customers on techniques to minimize victim complaints and avoid account termination.
They also helped customers buy and sell fraudulent call traffic among themselves, deepening their complicity in the criminal network, as stated in DoJ report.
Additionally, the defendants operated their own call center in Tunisia from 2016 through April 2022, during which some employees engaged in tech support fraud directly.
According to the FBI, tech support scams cost Americans $2.1 billion last year, with Rhode Island residents alone reporting losses of at least $5.7 million.
Many victims were elderly or otherwise vulnerable individuals who lost life savings and suffered significant emotional harm.
“Behind every fraudulent call was a real person left frightened, humiliated, or financially shattered,” said Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Division.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case, and the case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Milind Shah, Sandra Hebert, Julianne Klein, and Lee Vilker of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island.
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