27-year-old Venkateswara Chagamreddy, an Indian man living in Texas on a student visa, has been convicted of defrauding a 79-year-old Vietnam Veteran in Delaware County. In August 2025, the elderly man called a phone number that he believed was Microsoft support. He was told that criminal activities had been detected on his computer and he would be contacted by a federal officer to advice him further.
Another man called him posing as a federal officer and provided a false badge number. The fake fake federal officer told the victim that his identity had been stolen and provided to criminals, which resulted in him being “investigated,” and that his identity was used to commit federal crimes.
