A Bangladeshi man was charged in the US for working unlawful on-line marketplaces that offered digital templates of false identification paperwork, together with passports, social safety playing cards, and Montana driver’s licences, authorities mentioned.29-year-old Zahid Hasan of Dhaka faces a nine-count federal indictment unsealed within the District of Montana. He’s charged with six counts of transferring false identification paperwork, two counts of false use of a passport, and one depend of social safety fraud. If convicted, Hasan might resist 15 years in jail for every of the counts associated to false identification and passport use, and as much as 5 years for the social safety fraud cost. Every depend additionally carries a most tremendous of $250,000 and three years of supervised launch, US Legal professional Kurt Alme mentioned.In accordance with the indictment, Hasan operated two on-line companies, “TechTreek” and “EGiftCardStoreBD,” from a minimum of 2021 by means of 2025. These web sites offered and transferred digital variations of false government-issued identification paperwork. The false paperwork had been allegedly used to open fraudulent on-line accounts at banks, social media platforms, on-line fee providers, and digital foreign money websites. Clients might pay utilizing digital currencies, reminiscent of Bitcoin. A US passport template offered for $12, a social safety card for $9.37, and a Montana driver’s licence for $14.05. Over the span of 4 years, Hasan is alleged to have acquired greater than $2.9 million from over 1,400 prospects worldwide.As a part of the investigation, the US authorities seized three of Hasan’s web site domains: www.techtreek.com, www.egiftcardstorebd.com, and www.idtempl.com. Guests to those websites now see a message stating the websites are beneath authorities management.Assistant US Legal professional Benjamin Hargrove is prosecuting the case. The FBI introduced the fees on X: “Yesterday, a Bangladeshi nationwide was indicted for working unlawful on-line marketplaces that offered digital templates for false identification paperwork like U.S. passports and social safety playing cards.”
