Two American telecommunications executives have pleaded guilty to federal charges for supplying the phone infrastructure that powered a sprawling tech-support fraud operation targeting thousands of U.S. consumers over nearly six years — bringing the domestic side of the conspiracy to a close after earlier convictions against four Indian nationals who ran the call centers.
Adam Young and Harrison Gevirtz Plead Guilty to Concealing Six-Year Fraud Scheme
Adam Young, 42, a former chief executive officer from Miami, Florida, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, a former chief security officer from Las Vegas, Nevada, each pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony — the federal charge of knowingly concealing a federal crime. The Department of Justice documented how the pair provided call routing, phone number provisioning, tracking, and call-forwarding infrastructure to India-based call centers engaged in tech-support fraud. A Tunisia-based operation also used the same infrastructure. The scheme ran from approximately 2016 through April 2022.
Young and Gevirtz’s Role in the Infrastructure Chain
Rather than running the scam directly, Young and Gevirtz occupied the layer beneath it — the legitimate-seeming telecom stack that made fraudulent contact with victims possible at scale. Their services allowed overseas call centers to reach American consumers through U.S. phone numbers and routing systems, lending an air of domestic credibility to calls that originated abroad. The “misprision of a felony” theory reflects a DOJ approach of holding infrastructure providers accountable when they knowingly facilitate fraud through services that are, on their face, legitimate telecommunications products.
The Four Indian Nationals Already Convicted
The call-center side of the enterprise resulted in convictions against Sahil Narang, Chirag Sachdeva, Abrar Anjum, and Manish Kumar. Their operations relied on deceptive browser pop-ups that warned victims of fake virus infections, then manipulated those victims into paying hundreds to thousands of dollars for worthless “tech support.” The guilty pleas from Young and Gevirtz close the remaining gap in the prosecution by addressing the U.S.-based layer of the operation.
The $2.1 Billion Annual Tech-Support Scam Industry Behind the Young-Gevirtz Infrastructure
Tech-support scams cost American consumers an estimated $2.1 billion annually based on reported statistics. In Rhode Island alone, losses attributable to connected operations reached at least $5.7 million. The breadth of that figure reflects how effectively fraudulent browser pop-ups — a low-technology lure — can be amplified when paired with professional-grade telecommunications infrastructure capable of routing high call volumes across borders.
The pop-up format used in this scheme has remained a durable fraud vector precisely because it mimics the appearance of legitimate operating-system security warnings, creating urgency that prompts victims to call numbers staffed by trained scammers. Once on the phone, victims were guided through fabricated diagnostic procedures before being pressed to pay for fake remediation services.
Young and Gevirtz Scheduled for Sentencing June 16 as DOJ Targets Telecom Enablers
Young and Gevirtz are scheduled for sentencing on June 16, 2026. The misprision of a felony charge carries federal penalties, though specific sentencing ranges were not detailed in publicly available case documents at the time of this report.
The prosecution illustrates a strategic choice by federal prosecutors: rather than treating telecom service providers as passive conduits, the DOJ pursued charges against executives who had knowledge of the fraud and continued supplying the infrastructure that made it operable. Whether that approach will extend to other cases involving infrastructure-layer participants in transnational fraud schemes remains to be seen, but the Young and Gevirtz pleas establish a clear precedent that knowingly concealing such activity — even without directly operating the scam — carries federal criminal exposure.
