The FBI Baltimore Field Office, Montgomery County Police Department, and Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office announced the results of a joint investigation targeting large-scale fraud schemes involving government impersonation and tech support scams that victimized Maryland residents and hundreds of people nationwide.
Through coordinated investigative efforts, law enforcement traced scams reported by Montgomery County victims to extensive international call center operations in India that had been targeting Americans since 2022. Those operations were dismantled by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation in December 2025, leading to the arrest of six Indian nationals identified as leaders of the criminal syndicates.
According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, approximately 660 victims across the United States reported losses connected to these scam networks since 2022, totaling $48,778,230. In Maryland, nearly two dozen complaints were filed, with reported financial losses reaching $6,257,869…