A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for selling the personal information of over 7 million elderly Americans to Jamaican scammers.
57-year-old Troy Murray (who used the Steve Dixon pseudonym) pleaded guilty in January 2026 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and was sentenced Thursday to 121 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $5,2 million.
Prosecutors said that Murray's alias was so widely known among Jamaican scammers that it was referenced in a 2022 song lyric by a Jamaican musical artist.
According to court documents, between 2016 and 2023, Murray sold lead lists containing the names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and email addresses of elderly Americans to scammers in Jamaica and elsewhere, who used the information to commit lottery fraud.
Murray earned hundreds of thousands of dollars annually after typically charging $500 per list of 100 to 300 names. After the wire transmission services he used blocked him from their platforms, he asked his "clients" to pay him in prepaid gift cards instead.
