Two scammers were sentenced to years in prison and ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution for an elaborate “phishing” racket which targeted elderly victims across the country, including a Granite Shoals resident who was swindled out of $180,000.

Dhruv Rajeshbhai Mangukiya, 21, an Indian national in the U.S. on a student visa, was sentenced to 97 months, just over eight years, in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.5 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit money laundering, while his coconspirator , Kishan Rajeshkumar Patel, 20, received a sentence of 63 months, or five years and three months, in June. The case was handled by the Western District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office .

According to federal filings, Mangukiya and Patel were part of a network of scammers

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