A court in the United States has sentenced an American man to more than 10 years in prison for selling personal information or lead sheets of more than seven million elderly US citizens to Jamaican scammers.

Troy Murray was sentenced to 121 months in prison and three years of supervised release for running a seven-year scheme where he victimised millions of elderly Americans by selling their personal information to Jamaican lottery fraud scammers.

He was also ordered to pay forfeiture in the amount of US$5.2 million.