Telemarketing Scheme Gets Man a 5-year Sentence

Like taking candy from a baby is how easy Matthew Gordon Hunt thought taking millions from grandma would be. That is, until he was caught, sentenced to 5 years in prison, and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution costs for his role in an international telemarketing scheme that bilked millions of dollars from elderly people.

The scheme involved an international cast of deadbeats and shady crooks. As revealed in an Associated Press story, Prosecutors said Hunt admitted that he helped international criminals illegally withdraw money from victims’ bank accounts using stolen account numbers taken by telemarketers operating out of Canada and India.

Telemarketers scammed the credit card information by offering credit cards or grants for the folks they called on the phone. Hunt’s role was to incorporate the front company, Mountain Peak Financial, to help launder the stolen money in Canada and India, prosecutors said.

Between November 2003 and August 2005, about $3 million in victims’ money was processed through Mountain Peak Financial, according to the attorney general’s office.

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