Miami, FL – 9/24/26 – The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and partner national agencies have seized an net domain, charging a Pakistani national alongside functioning an unauthorized website that allegedly sold additional than 5 myriad counterfeit U.S. Postal Service (USPS) postage labels, resulting in additional than $126 myriad in losses.
Court records display Faheem Akram, 33, of Khanewal, Pakistan, operated LabelsBank.com, a website that allegedly sold counterfeit USPS postage at a fixed rate, typically charging $2 per label, despite of the package’s weight, size, or destination. LabelsBank.com was not authorized to market USPS products and services. The counterfeit labels allowed customers to container packages at deeply discounted prices, resulting in a significant defeat in income to USPS for shipping services rendered.
Postal inspectors from the Miami Division of the Postal Inspection Service established additional than 5,000 customers used LabelsBank.com to acquisition additional than 5.1 myriad counterfeit shipping labels. In conjunction alongside Akram’s indictment, a court command was issued authorizing the domain capture and shutdown of the website.
Akram is charged alongside one figure of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to create and market counterfeit postage stamps, five counts of making and marketing counterfeit postage stamp labels, and four counts of cable fraud. It is crucial to note that offender charges are lone allegations, and all accused is presumed guiltless unless or until proven guilty.
“Our attain goes beyond our borders,” stated Miami Division Postal Inspector in Charge Bladismir Rojo. “If you are defrauding the Postal Service and targeting U.S consumers by pushing phony postage, we volition discover you and bring you to justice.”
“The alleged scheme was uncomplicated but massive: market counterfeit postage online at fixed, cut-rate prices, as small as $2 per label, despite of a package’s weight, size, or destination, enabling customers to evade lawful Postal Service charges,” stated U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida. “The indictment alleges additional than 5.1 myriad counterfeit labels and additional than $126 myriad in losses. Through the activity of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and our prosecutors, the website has been close down, the domain seized, and national charges brought against its alleged operator, a Pakistani national.”
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