PROVIDENCE -- An Indian national admitted in U.S. District Court, Providence, on Monday that he used a telemarketing scheme to try to bilk $600,000 from seven people in the United States, all of them older than 65.

Chirag Sachdeva, 30, has been held since he was arrested by FBI agents on Feb. 16 as he got off a plane in Boston after a flight from India, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman.

Sachdeva admitted to U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. that he tried to misappropriate funds from bank accounts of victims across the United States, using personal and banking information obtained from them in the course of an India-based telemarketing scheme, Weisman said.

According to Weisman, the scheme offered victims supposed cyber-protection services after misleading them to believe that malware had been detected on their computers. In pulling off the scheme, call-center operators in India got personal and banking information from victims’ computers through remote access applications and from the victims directly, Weisman said.

Sachdeva admitted that he later tried to use the personal and banking information to misappropriate funds from the victims’ bank accounts, according to the U.S. Attorney. Sachdeva admitted that he contacted an acquaintance in Rhode Island and enlisted him to assist in accessing and stealing funds from the victims’ bank accounts.

According to court documents, an FBI investigation determined that Sachdeva provided his acquaintance with personal and banking information to enable online access to the accounts of at least seven people.

Sachdeva didn’t know it, but his acquaintance in Rhode Island was helping the FBI in an investigation into the scheme, Weisman said.

Sachdeva pleaded guilty to seven counts of wire fraud. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 8.