Suffolk DA Ray Tierney says his office recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars from internet scam - Newsday

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s bureau recovered much than $330,000 that was stolen from a Suffolk mates who were the victims of an alleged internet phishing scam, the DA’s bureau said Wednesday.

“Foreign nationalist scammers often prey upon our residents nether the content that adjacent if their crimes are discovered, they volition beryllium beyond the scope of American instrumentality enforcement,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said successful a statement. “Here, our Financial Crimes Bureau swiftly teamed up with the Suffolk County Police Department, and we were capable to retrieve the victims’ funds wrong successful a substance of days. I punctual everyone to beryllium cautious astir this benignant of predatory behaviour by opportunistic swindlers.”

An alleged scammer successful Kolkata, India stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the hubby and woman couple’s slope relationship connected astir Sept. 20, according to a quality merchandise from the DA’s office.

The stolen funds amounted to the couple’s beingness savings. The scammer past convinced the mates that they needed to refund hundreds of thousands of dollars that had been erroneously deposited into their slope account, according to the territory attorney’s office.

The scammer “made mendacious claims and manipulated physics banking information” to instrumentality the couple, the DA’s bureau said. Once the mates deposited the funds into a crypto wallet, the scammer locked them retired of the relationship and utilized the stolen funds to bargain Bitcoins, the DA’s bureau said.

The mates reported the scam to authorities and the DA’s bureau and constabulary section “worked to frost the account,” the DA’s bureau said, and recovered the funds wrong 2 days.

Tiernan's bureau did not place the alleged scammer oregon the victims.