A Moncton man has been sentenced to 33 months in a United States prison in a grandparent scam case, with a Vermont judge also ordering $256,000 in restitution. Paul Conneh, 39, of Moncton, New Brunswick, pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to commit wire fraud and conspiring to launder monetary instruments, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office for Vermont release. Prosecutors said the scam targeted about 20 elderly Americans over a three-week period from July to August 2023. Fraudsters posed as relatives in distress to trick seniors into sending money. Conneh recruited bail bondsmen to travel to the United States, prosecutors said. He was accused of laundering money taken from American seniors and distributing it to co-conspirators. Conneh was arrested in Costa Rica in January 2025 and later extradited to the United States. The district judge ordered him to pay $256,000 to victims. He has been sentenced in Vermont and is now serving his 33-month prison term.