On September 24, 2025, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon, with assistance from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, arrested San Bernadino resident Tejveer Kumar for serving as a money mule for a Social Security scam operation. where:
- A co-conspirator will call the victim, an 81-year-old woman, under the guise of an FBI agent to falsely claim her bank account was compromised.
- In order to “safekeep” her assets, she was asked to purchase $278,000 in gold coins and put it into “a new Charles Schwab investment account” by handing it off to Kumar, a designated courier/money mule.
Kumar flew from California and took an uber to try and pick up $800,000 in gold from another elderly lady at the parking lot of a Eugene, Oregon Dairy Queen under the guise of “meeting his brother” He is now being held on a $500,000 bail at the Lincoln County Jail on charges of racketeering, attempted aggravated theft and criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated theft.