There’s a new scam starting to get entrenched within New York’s financial district. An unsuspecting individual receives a call claiming there’s a warrant out for their arrest. If they want it all to go away, they’re told to pay a “large amount of cash,” with the promise that the issue will disappear.
In reality, it doesn’t. The scammers simply come back asking for more. Such was the case with 23-year-old Indian national Tushar Sharma, who called a victim in New York and claimed there was a warrant out for his arrest. From there, Sharma convinced the victim that authorities were pursuing him for money laundering and narcotics trafficking, even going as far as to claim he worked for the newly led Department of Homeland Security.
