Pakistan's cybercrime agency arrests a man wanted in the United States over a $126m counterfeit postage case
22 October 2026
Pakistan's cybercrime agency has arrested a man in a case of a counterfeit operation that caused 126 million dollars in losses to the United States Postal Service, in an arrest reported on October 21, 2026. The man, Faheem Akram, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida last month for selling more than five million counterfeit shipping labels to thousands of customers in the United States, through a fraudulent website operating since 2023. Authorities have now shut down the website. Earlier in October 2026 the United States Postal Inspection Service had offered a reward of up to 100,000 dollars for information in the case.
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