The British Columbia government says its civil forfeiture office has secured $10 million from a company that provided payment processing services for people found guilty or who are alleged to have been running scams against vulnerable seniors.

“The defendants are charged with enriching themselves by helping fraudsters who took money from elderly and otherwise vulnerable victims,” according to a U.S. prosecutor.

The U.S. Department of Treasury has named a a relatively unknown Vancouver company with offices downtown as a "significant transnational criminal organization," which has helped to defraud Americans of hundreds of millions of dollars.