Two men who took part in scamming an elderly Carlsbad woman out of nearly $1.5 million have pleaded guilty to federal charges.
Prosecutors say scammers convinced the victim her bank account information had been compromised and that her money needed to be transferred into gold bars, then handed over to others for apparent safekeeping.
After the woman received a pop-up on her computer that stated she’d been hacked, fraudsters posing as government, bank, and tech support employees had the woman send $1.335 million in wire transfers to a San Marcos precious metal business, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
She then handed the purchased precious metals, which mostly consisted of gold, to scammers for supposed safekeeping, according to prosecutors, who said the woman had been told the gold bars would be sent to a secure U.S. Treasury locker.
Prosecutors said the scammers reached out to her again in February of last year, but the victim contacted the FBI this time and a fake gold delivery was set up.
The victim gave a package that the scammers believed contained $100,000 in gold to Alexander Charles James, 21, of Los Angeles, who later handed the package off to Xilin Sun, 35, of Ontario. Sun was arrested and officers found the package of fake gold bars, plus another package containing nearly $13,000 from a different victim, prosecutors said.
Sun pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit money laundering, while James pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Both men are slated to be sentenced in February.
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