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Man arrested over alleged $126 million USPS label fraud

Original: A man in Pakistan has been arrested over an alleged $126 MILLION fraud scheme targeting the U.S. Postal Service. And the

Pakistani authorities have arrested 33-year-old Faheem Akram over an alleged $126 million fraud scheme against the U.S. Postal Service. He is accused of running a website that sold counterfeit USPS shipping labels for a flat $2 each regardless of package size, letting shippers bypass real postage costs. The scheme reportedly cost USPS tens of millions in lost revenue, and the scale and simplicity of the operation is drawing widespread attention.

Why now: The sheer scale of the alleged fraud and the simple method of selling fake postage labels for a flat fee is striking to readers.

Faheem AkramUnited States Postal ServicePakistan

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