On January 30, 2025, police in South Windsor, New Hampshire arrested 42-year-old Brooklyn resident Qiao Zheng for serving as a “courier” or money mule for an Indian PayPal scam organization who:
- Sends fraudulent emails out to victims, falsely claiming their accounts were used to purchase Bitcoin
- Requests that their victims (in this case, a 90-year-old man) to transfer $49,900 to a separate bank account.
- The scammers will then ask for an additional $20,000 to be picked up via a courier.
Zheng was arrested on a $100,000 bond and charged with the conspiracy to commit 2nd-degree grand larceny, a class C felony punishable by a maximum of 5 to 15 years in prison. He is due to appear in the Manchester Superior Court.