Urvishkumar Vipulkumar Patel, 21, apparently thought he’d found a lucrative side hustle: collecting packages for cash. Unfortunately for him, those packages weren’t filled with delicious takeout or the latest online shopping haul. Instead, they contained hundreds of thousands of dollars from a 75-year-old man who had fallen victim to an elaborate scam. It all started with a pesky pop-up message on the victim’s computer, leading him to a supposed “federal agent” named “Sam Wilson.” This “agent” convinced the elderly man that he was caught up in a money laundering scheme involving Russian real e…
