A South Boston man pleaded guilty last week to participating in a scheme to scam a 75-year-old man out of about $500,000 in cash.
Urvishkumar Vipulkumar Patel, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in federal court in Springfield, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors say that in early 2024, the victim, a North Adams resident, received a pop-up message on his computer saying it was frozen and telling him to call a given phone number. The person who picked up the call identified himself as “Sam Wilson,” a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Treasury Department, and told the victim he had been involved in a money laundering scheme. He told him to withdraw cash from his bank accounts and send it to the Treasury Department for safekeeping…