Court documents filed in Rhode Island’s federal district describe a deliberate scheme: C.A. Cloud Attribution didn’t accidentally end up servicing telemarketing fraudsters. They built a service business around them.
Adam Young, the firm’s former CEO, and Harrison Gevirtz, its former CSO, pleaded guilty this week to misprision of a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 4, the charge that attaches when you know a federal crime is underway and conceal it rather than report it. Maximum exposure: three years in federal prison and $250,000 each. Sentencing is June 16.
From 2017 through April 2022, Young and Gevirtz supplied telephone numbers, call forwarding, call recordings, and call-tracking services to customers they knew were running tech support fraud. Pop-up ads falsely warned victims their computers were infected with malware; call center agents then impersonated Microsoft and Apple, charged hundreds of dollars for fictitious repairs, and sometimes remotely accessed victims’ machines to steal financial data. When fraud complaints arrived, the two advised those customers to rotate through large pools of telephone numbers to suppress complaint rates and avoid account terminations. Sales staff was directed to market explicitly to businesses already known to run fraud. On occasion, they introduced fraudsters to each other to buy and sell calls. They also ran a Tunisian call center from 2016 through April 2022, where some employees conducted the same fraud.
“By their own admission, they willfully profited from telemarketing and tech support scammers, here and abroad, who preyed on the elderly, exploited the vulnerable, and drained victims of their life savings,” said Ted E. Docks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Division. The FBI’s 2025 IC3 report records $2.1 billion in tech support fraud losses last year, drawn from nearly 48,000 complaints.
DOJ’s misprision theory here pushes enforcement past the dialing fraudsters and into the enabling infrastructure. The charge doesn’t require that you made a single fraudulent call — only that you knew and stayed quiet. Any call-tracking or telecom services firm sitting on internal records showing it reviewed fraud complaints without reporting them is now reading this outcome carefully. Worth auditing your customer due diligence files before June 16.
Rebecca Lauren