Pakistan Arrests Faheem Akram in US Postage Fraud Case

Pakistani authorities have arrested Faheem Akram, 33, in connection with a US investigation into an online counterfeit-postage operation that prosecutors allege caused more than $126 million in losses to the U.S. Postal Service. Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency said Akram was detained after a weeks-long search involving raids across the country. US prosecutors allege Akram operated an unauthorized website that sold more than 5.1 million counterfeit postage labels to over 5,200 customers. The labels were typically priced at $2 each regardless of a package’s weight, size or destination, allowing customers to send parcels for less than official postal charges, prosecutors said. The alleged loss figure represents revenue and shipping costs the Postal Service did not receive, not money Akram is alleged to have earned from label sales. The website was seized and shut down by US authorities, according to one report. Pakistan’s cybercrime agency said investigators believed the operation ran from August 2023 through September 2026. A federal grand jury in Florida indicted Akram in September, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida....