A Brooklyn woman with a Union City business is charged with an over $220,000 email scam dating back to January 2022, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
On Monday, June 30th, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Unit arrested a New York woman after investigating a report of theft, Suarez said in a statement.
Zuly Ramirez Vargas, 28, of Brooklyn, New York, is charged with one count of theft by unlawful taking.
She was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Secaucus and transported to the Hudson County Correctional Facility pending her first court appearance.
In January 2022, an Ohio man utilized a brokerage firm to transfer over $220,000 between two accounts in which he owns.
After the victim made the request, the brokerage firm received a fraudulent email directing the funds to be transferred to an account controlled by Ramirez Vargas and Vargas Hub Central Inc., which operated under a Union City address.
Public records show that the address in question is 2402 West St.
The money was deposited to Ramirez Vargas’ account rather than the victim’s bank account.
