Goiana suffers scam when trying to obtain immigration documents in the USA; suspects were arrested

Goiana, who lives in the USA, fell for a company scam that pretended to provide advisory services to immigrants Personal file A Goiana is among the victims of a group of Brazilians suspected of scamming immigrants trying to obtain documents to regularize their situations in the United States. In an interview with g1, the young woman, who asked not to be identified, said she lost US$1,825, around R$9,000. The loss was only greater because she realized there was something strange and stopped payments. The group was arrested by the Florida Police last week. According to the girl, who lives in Texas, the scam started in the second half of last year. She saw an advertisement on the internet for a company called B Consulting, which promised services to assist immigrants in the process of requesting to stay in the United States. During the negotiations, however, she learned that the services, in fact, involved the company Legacy Imigra. ✅ Click and follow the g1 GO channel on WhatsApp “I ran away from Legacy because there was already a buzz that Legacy was making documents ‘fast food’. When I signed the contract and they asked me to send the material to Legacy, I said: ‘Wait. With Legacy?”, he reported. See the videos that are trending on g1 g1 tried to contact B Consulting, but did not receive a response until the last update of this report. Legacy Imigra has not yet been located. The company’s website is deactivated, displaying the message “under maintenance”. The defense of the Brazilian prisoners was also not found. The woman from Goiás reports that she dealt with more than one consultant the entire time. The services were provided via messages, on Whatsapp. The Brazilians arrested by the police were: Ronaldo de Campos; Vagner Soares de Almeida; Juliana Colucci; Lucas Trindade Silva. According to the police, the four were the leaders of the fraudulent scheme. The investigation began after complaints received by the Florida Bar in September. Juliana and Vagner are married. Payments were made to Vagner’s account, as shown in the receipts for transfers made by Goiana. And Juliana’s surname, “Colucci”, appears in the only email provided by the company to her. Brazilians arrested by Florida police, accused of scamming Brazilian immigrants in the USA. Reproduction/Orange County READ ALSO Businesswoman is suspected of committing scams by selling products online with discounts of up to 70% and not making deliveries Butcher shop owner who sent meat to customer after fake PIX films new scam attempt when buying picanha: ‘Catch a thief’ Suspects of cloning websites and social networks of inns in Pirenópolis generated R$ 13 million in two years Request for asylum The young woman left Goiânia for the States United for four and a half years, on a tourist visa. As she decided to stay in the country, she started studying at an English school. Then, he decided to apply to college. During the process, however, the institution missed a deadline. Therefore, the girl hired the services of a lawyer, also Brazilian, who had no connection with Legacy, to file an asylum request, as she had been a victim of “stalking” (persecution) in Brazil. “There was a crazy stalker in Brazil who was chasing me for a long time. I reported it to the police at the time, but there was no stalking law yet,” he said. 🔎 Stalking is an obsessive pursuit considered a crime in Brazil since 2021. The crime involves the repetitive practice of stalking in a physical or virtual environment in a way that threatens the physical or psychological integrity of the person being pursued. Excerpt from the contract sent by Legacy Imigra to the woman from Goiás who lives in the USA, regarding services for the asylum application process Personal file This lawyer, however, according to the woman from Goiás, did not perform the service. That’s when she learned about B Consulting’s services, which would cost, in total, US$3,200. In October 2025, she started paying, making a down payment of US$1,000 followed by eight installments of US$275. “But my case was never even applied. They received my money in October last year and never filed my case”, she said. Suspicious, she stopped paying the installments in January of this year. To g1, the woman from Goiás said that about three weeks ago she received a call from a boy, demanding the rest of the payments. She replied that she would not pay anything more because she no longer trusted the company, as they did not provide any information on the progress of the process. “I said I wanted my money back. And then they disappeared,” he said. Now, the young woman seeks to regularize her situation in another way, living, however, with the fear of being the target of inspection actions by the Donald Trump government against immigrants who are still irregular. She reports that what saddens her most is knowing that there were several victims besides her. “It’s a very delicate situation. A lot of people are going to lose a lot more money than me. How can someone just stand up and say: ‘look, I’m illegal, but I’ve started the process to regularize myself’?”, he says. Four crimes In a video published on his Instagram profile, Sheriff John Mina, responsible for the operation that arrested the Brazilians, stated that they will be responsible for four crimes: Organized crime; organized fraud; extortion; illegal practice of law. According to Mina, the group would have raised more than US$20 million in three years. “They basically got rich through a business model based on manipulation, fraud, lies and extortion,” he said. The sheriff stated that most of the victims were Brazilian. Until that moment, three days ago, seven victims had cooperated with police investigations, but Mina believes that number is much higher. According to him, each victim lost between US$2,500 and US$26,000. 📱 See other news from the region on g1 G

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