John Robert Eddy, 29; Cloyd James Holmes, Jr., 50; Gino Christopher Marquez, 31; and Donald Meyers, 43 were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud.
Prosecutors say that the men were telemarketers working for Creative Vacation Solutions and Universal Marketing Solutions, companies that falsely claimed to have interested buyers for timeshares.
More than 22,000 victims in the United States and Canada paid fees of up to several thousand dollars in “closing costs and related expenses” before finding out that it was a scam, prosecutors said.
The company sold no timeshares and spent nothing to try and sell them, prosecutors said.
Ten others have been charged in connection with the case, prosecutors said.
