Two Former Tech Executives Plead Guilty in Tech Support Fraud Case

Two former U.S. technology executives have pleaded guilty to federal charges for knowingly providing telecommunications infrastructure that enabled an international tech support fraud network, which authorities say defrauded hundreds of elderly victims of millions of dollars. Adam Young, 42, of Miami, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, of Las Vegas, admitted in court to operating a business that supplied phone numbers, call routing, tracking, and forwarding services to clients they knew were engaged in fraudulent schemes.

The guilty pleas follow a multi-year investigation led by the FBI’s Boston division, which began in 2020. The probe resulted in the convictions of five individuals based in India—Sahil Narang, Chirag Sachdeva, Abrar Anjum, and Manish Kumar—along with a former employee of the executives' call-routing company. Another individual, Jagmeet Singh Virk, was also convicted in a separate case in California.

According to court documents, the fraud operation ran from at least 2016 to 2022. It relied on deceptive pop-up messages that falsely warned computer users their systems were infected with viruses or malware. Victims were directed to call phone numbers that connected them to...