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Owner of Costa Rican Call Center Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Defrauding Elderly through Sweepstakes Scam

NORTH CAROLINA–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2016.  A dual U.S.-Costa Rican citizen was sentenced yesterday to 108 months in prison for his role in a $1.88 million sweepstakes fraud scheme that victimized hundreds of elderly U.S. residents, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.

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