On April 10, 2026, federal officials in Tuscon, Arizona convicted 56-year-old Ivan Wilbur Seales, a New York resident and citizen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, for conspiring to launder money on behalf of a fraud scheme, where
- The scammers would generate “phishing attacks” through fraudulent emails, text messages, websites or fake virus popups impersonating American companies.
- The scammers who answer calls from their victims will falsely claim that
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- Their victim received an erroneous over-refund to their bank account.
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- Their victims’ banking information was used for illegal gambling or to purchase CHILD P0RNOGRAPHY.
- The victims will be asked to “protect” their assets by withdrawing money from their bank accounts and handing them off to Seales.
- Seales would keep a portion of the money and help the scammers launder the remaining funds to India.
Seales it due to be sentenced on my birthday, June 18, 2026.