Qingyun Chen is accused of participating in a network that scams elderly Americans out of their life savings.
A local resident, Qingyun Chen, 30, is facing federal charges for allegedly helping scam a 79-year-old woman out of $50,500. Prosecutors say this was part of an international fraud network targeting elderly Americans. Chen was already facing charges in Marin County for the alleged fraud, but federal prosecutors filed a case against her last month. Chen is accused of working with others to defraud a Greenbrae woman, who handed over the cash to a courier.
Prosecutors argued Chen posed a flight risk and had been working with multiple cohorts to target numerous victims. Evidence included a raid of Chen’s San Leandro home in November, where six people were living. Deputies found 30 SIM cards with different phone numbers, 75 identification cards belonging to people other than those in the house, ketamine, $5,000 in cash, a receipt for $19,000, and a collection of drugs. Chen claims to have worked at a local Karaoke bar, but prosecutors argue the evidence suggests otherwise
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