Brooklyn Woman Charged In Nearly $250,000 Email Scam
Saturday, July 5, 2025, 8:15 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
UNION CITY, NJ.- On Tuesday, following a financial crimes investigation, a 28-year-old Brooklyn, New York, woman was taken into custody and jailed after being charged in connection with bilking an Ohio man out of over $220,000 in an email scam in 2022.
According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, Detectives of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Unit formally charged Zuly Ramirez Vargas, 28, of Brooklyn, New York, with one count of second-degree Theft by Unlawful Taking. Ramirez Vargas was taken into custody at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Ramirez Vargas was processed on the charge and was remanded to the Hudson County Correctional Facility, pending future court proceedings in Hudson County Superior Court in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Dtectives Uncover Email Scam
The charge stems from an investigation that unfolded in January 2022, when an Ohio man utilized a brokerage firm to transfer over $220,000 between two accounts that he owns and controls. After the man made the request, the brokerage firm received a fraudulent email directing the funds to be transferred to an account controlled by Ramirez Vargas and Vargas Hub Central, Inc., which operated out of a Union City, New Jersey address.
The money was ultimately deposited into Ramirez Vargas’ account rather than the man’s bank account.

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