Fake Email ID Racket Busted; 5 Lakh IDs Sold To Anti-India Elements

TV9 Hindi · india

Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested a 24-year-old man from Kanpur for allegedly creating and selling approximately 5 lakh fake email IDs to anti-India elements in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The accused, Ankit Shankhwar, reportedly operated since 2021, using proxy servers and receiving payments in cryptocurrency. These fake IDs were used to send bomb threat emails to schools in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai. The ATS traced the threat emails to specific fake IDs, leading to the arrest.