On May 1, 2025, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina arrested 21-year-old Indian national Kishan Kumar Singh, who was living in Cleveland, Ohio on a student visa since 2024, for serving as a money mule for a Social Security scam where
- The scammers will repeatedly call their victims, in this case a 78-year-old elderly woman, and pose as deputies/federal agents to falsely claim their bank accounts were compromised and that their name was tied to criminal activity in another part of the country.
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- Though unspecified, this likely means that the scammers are pulling the “drugs found in a Toyota Corolla at the southern border” trick.
- The victims will then be forced to withdraw large amounts of money and hand it off to “federal agents,” or money mules like Singh, for “safekeeping.”
Singh is now being held at the Guilford County Detention Center on a $1 million secured bond and has been charged with:
- Felony attempt to obtain property by false pretenses.
- Felony exploitation of a disabled/elder adult.
Though he faces prison time, I hope his student visa gets revoked and that he gets transferred to Guantanamo for deportation.
