The Office of the Inspector General and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a married couple on Thursday, who stand accused of laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars for foreign fraudsters. The Inspector General for the Social Security Administration (SSA), Gail S. Ennis, announced the arraignment of Chaitali Dave, 36, and Mehulkumar Patel, 36 -- both residents of Lexington, South Carolina. The husband and wife team allegedly garnered $400,000 from at least 24 victims of Social Security and tech support scams," the SSA reported. Part of the con had India-based callers posing as federal agents claiming that the victims' Social Security number had been used in a crime. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAnyone who suspects that they may have been a victim of a Social Security fraud is encouraged to report it at https://oig.ssa.gov.

Source: Fox News July 16, 2020 20:49 UTC