Two former executives of a call-tracking and analytics company pleaded guilty to concealing a years-long tech support fraud scheme that victimized individuals worldwide.
Former CEO Adam Young (from Miami, Florida) and former CSO Harrison Gevirtz (from Las Vegas, Nevada) admitted to a misprision of a felony charge, which carries a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both, and are scheduled for sentencing on June 16.
According to court documents, they operated the C.A. Cloud Attribution, Ltd. business (using the C.A. Cloud tradename) between early 2017 and April 2022, providing telephone numbers, call recordings, call forwarding, and call-tracking services to many customers they knew were also engaged in telemarketing and tech support fraud scams.
The fraudsters behind these schemes placed deceptive pop-up ads on users' computers, falsely claiming the systems were infected with malware, and directing victims to call center agents who asked for hundreds of dollars for fictitious technical services, while impersonating Microsoft and Apple in some cases.
Some scammers also allegedly remotely accessed their victims' computers and, in some instances, stole personal and financial information to withdraw funds without authorization.
