Two Americans plead guilty to assisting India-based tech support scam centers

Two U.S.-based operators pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony for knowingly providing call numbers, call routing, tracking, and forwarding services to an India-based tech-support fraud ring that used fake pop-up warnings and remote-access to defraud elderly and disabled victims of millions of dollars; prosecutors say the defendants advised scammers on evasion techniques and promoted the illicit operations.