A 63-year-old man from Florida has been arrested in connection with a years-long cyber fraud scheme that drained more than $1 million from an elderly Georgia couple.
Charles Henry Williams, a resident of Trinity, Florida, was taken into custody on August 29 after a five-month investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Crime Center. He now faces multiple charges, including Theft by Deception and Exploitation of an Elder Person.
Authorities say the alleged fraud spanned four years and centered around a timeshare resale scam that specifically targeted vulnerable seniors. Its primary victims—an elderly couple in Newnan, Georgia—were misled into believing they were engaged in legitimate financial transactions involving their property, but the payments kept piling up with no results…