A 22-year-old Jamaican national conspired with a 72-year-old Pittsburgh woman and others to rip off senior citizens around the country in a series of telephone scams, according to the state attorney general’s office and federal agents in Pittsburgh.
Kristoff Cain, 22, of Jamaica, was indicted by a federal grand jury under seal earlier this week on mail and wire fraud counts in fleecing U.S. citizens in what agents call “Jamaican Lottery” phone scams.
Mr. Cain had previously been charged by the attorney general’s office, as had the alleged Pittsburgh accomplice, Audrey Huff of Carrick, who was described by Attorney General Josh Shapiro as the “money mule” for the Jamaicans in the scheme.
The federal case was unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh and Mr. Cain appeared briefly before a U.S. magistrate judge in the afternoon.