On June 20, 2024, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Himanshu Amin was sentenced to 7 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. Amin was additionally ordered to pay $58,811.00 in restitution—$1,972.00 individually plus $56,839.00 jointly and severally with another defendant.

From January 2016 to September 2016, a group of conspirators in India made phone calls to United States residents and falsely claimed the victim’s owed money. The callers often pretended they worked for the IRS. The coconspirator callers told the victims how much money the purportedly owed, typically alleging the debt was for delinquent taxes. The callers frequently threatened the fraud victims with arrest if they failed to immediately pay the alleged debt.

Amin was an account holder who received proceeds of the fraud scheme via deposits from runners. Amin had access to multiple bank accounts as well as his personal bank accounts to receive and move fraud proceeds that were deposited by co-conspirators. He received multiple cash deposits across numerous states and quickly moved the fraudulent proceeds from their accounts to another bank account.

The coconspirator callers caused at least approximately 100 victim taxpayers to pay at least $799,151.60 to coconspirator runners that was deposited into the bank accounts of the account holders.

Source: The facts in this case narrative come from the following publicly available documents, E.D. Pa. judgement filed June 21, 2024; and E.D. Pa. Indict. dated Sept. 22, 2021