Man indicted for bribing AT&T employees to fraudulently unlock over 2 million phones

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment (via iDrop News) against a 34-year-old Pakistani man named Muhammad Fahd who was arrested in Hong Kong this past February and recently extradited to the states. The indictment was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle. The DOJ alleges that Fahd and a partner named Ghulam Jiwani bribed AT&T call center employees as much as $1 million over a five year period to fraudulently unlock over 2 million smartphones.

The phone owners would pay Fahd and Jiwani ...

Tuesday, 6 August 2019 GSM ARENA GSMArena.com