Calls made by David Anthony Di Rienzo’s network of fraudsters to elderly people in the U.S. were important to him. So much so they were recorded for quality assurance.

Much like the corporations that greet customers with similar messages before putting them on hold for what often seems like an eternity, Di Rienzo insisted that the scammers who worked for him in the Montreal area record their calls to potential victims, during which they pretended to be grandchildren needing money fast to get out of trouble.

Di Rienzo 32, of Laval, was one of six men who pleaded guilty on Thursday at the Montreal courthouse to playing varying roles in a grandparent fraud scheme that operated between 2019 and 2021 and bilked 20 elderly Americans out of more than US$316,000.

In court, Di Rienzo was describ

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