Omaha Man Sentenced for Telemarketing Fraud Scheme

United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on January 13, 2016, Senior United States District Court Judge Lyle E. Strom sentenced Myron Plummer of Omaha, Nebraska, age 52, to a 4 year term of imprisonment, following his conviction for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.  After his release from prison, Plummer will begin a term of supervised release of 3 years.  Additionally, Plummer was ordered to make restitution in the amount of $196,000.00 to the victims of his fraudulent scheme.

During the period of March 1, 2011 through December 3, 2014, the Defendant conducted a telemarketing scheme to defraud mostly elderly individuals who had previously lost money to fraudulent telemarketers who were selling them bogus timeshares and/or precious metals.

Plummer, doing business as FCR Global LLC, would “reload” victims, (that is, re-contact individuals that he learned had been previously defrauded),  and tell them that for an upfront advance fee, he would be able to recover the monies they had lost and in turn would be able to resell their timeshares for them to recoup their losses. Plummer convinced approximately 17 individuals to send him via Western Union, Money Gram, Bank Wire, or through the U.S. Mail, approximately $196,000.00 on the promise that he would recover the losses incurred by the victims from prior fraudsters.  Plummer had also advised these individuals that if he could not recover the lost funds from the prior frauds, he would return his advance fees to them.  In fact, he did not recover any of the victims’ monies and used the monies for his own personal use .  Plummer, rather than helping the victims, in fact, victimized them once again and used monies that he received for the advance fees for his own personal use, the majority of the funds being used to underwrite a significant drug habit he had during the period of the fraud.

This case was investigated by the United States Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.