[HN Gopher] Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US
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       Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2025-05-07 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com)
        
       | jfengel wrote:
       | Why bother selling actual fentanyl when you've got a thriving
       | business selling fake homework help? Seems like a lot less
       | overhead to manage.
        
       | walterbell wrote:
       | Turtles all the way down.
       | 
       |  _> the company's most lucrative scam business: Hundreds of sites
       | peddling fake college degrees and diplomas. People who purchased
       | fake certifications were subsequently blackmailed by Axact
       | employees posing as government officials.. "Axact took money from
       | at least 215,000 people in 197 countries -- one-third of them
       | from the United States.. earning the company at least $89
       | million".. a Pakistan district judge acquitted 24 Axact officials
       | at trial due to 'not enough evidence' and then later admitted he
       | had accepted a bribe (of $35,209) from Axact_
        
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