DANNY : DE HEK

FIA raids. FBI and HSI involvement. Intersys, Digitonics Labs, Wordsense. Allegations of drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering.

And the names at the centre of it all: Azneem Bilwani, Muhammad Salman Yousuf, Burhan Mirza, Junaid Mansoor, Faiz Ul Hassan, Abdul Qadir Fattani — and more.

I’m going to start this post by recapping some critical points that a lot of people working in scam software houses still haven’t fully understood. Then I’ll give you some valuable non-public information about major actions that I strongly suspect are about to unfold. And finally, I’ll be putting out a call — for more intel, for more names, and for anyone who knows what’s really going on behind the scenes.

Yes, I’ve also got some hot gossip from inside Karachi, including a few details about the very glamorous Irsa Faruqui that you’re not going to want to miss.

As always, if I’ve got something wrong, Contact me and I’ll correct it. The truth is what matters.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve made a lot of new Pakistani Friends — sharp people, well-informed, and trying to do the right thing. But here’s the problem: many of them still don’t realise that very bad things are in store for the scam software houses of Karachi.

The Tipping Point: U.S. Indictments and the Karachi Connection

Let me walk you through a few things that have already happened — because if you still think this is just internet gossip or overblown claims, you haven’t been paying attention. These aren’t rumours. These are real indictments, official charges, and federal law enforcement actions unfolding in broad daylight. And yes, they trace right back to Karachi’s so-called software industry.

  1. April 23, 2025: The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that charged eWorldTrade with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances for unlawful importation into the United States, this has to do with analogues of a drug called fentanyl. eWorldTrade is a website similar to Alibaba that is a subsidiary of Retrocube, which is a company that is owned by Azneem Bilwani. Functionally this company operated out of Karachi but had a bank account and an office in Texas.
  2. May 23, 2025: Two Texas residents, Abdul Hadi Murshid and Muhammad Salman Nasir, both originally from Pakistan, a law firm and companies formed in Texas, were charged with RICO (used against the Mafia usually) and large-scale visa fraud charges. On May 24, 2025, the Director of the FBI Kash Patel, who normally doesn’t tweet about small law enforcement actions, made a statement: “Major arrests out of @FBIDallas Abdul Hadi Murshid and Muhammad Salman Nasir — two individuals out of Texas who allegedly oversaw and operated a criminal enterprise circumventing American immigration laws by selling fraudulent visa applications. Well done to our FBI teams and partners in the investigation.”
  3. Karachi-based software houses have proliferated in Texas. Based on my own investigations and info already put out by researchers like Brian Krebs, I’ve tracked numerous Pakistani nationals in Texas forming hundreds of shell companies, many of which — when you Google the company names — have reports from people alleging fraud and blackmail.
  4. I believe that some big law enforcement actions are afoot. What’s coming soon to the scam software houses of Karachi will overshadow the FIA raids of 2021. 2025 is the beginning of the end for scam software houses of Karachi. So if you are a Pakistani running a scam software house, shut it down and go fishing — because to be caught up in what’s gonna happen will be very dangerous.
  5. ExportHub.com and TradeKey.com, run by Junaid Mansoor and Burhan Mirza, have their own issues with aiding in the sale of controlled substances — based on numerous listings for dangerous drugs and “research chemicals” I was able to find on these websites. For those that don’t know, on August 22, 2018, the U.S. DOJ unsealed an indictment that tied TradeKey.com to a large Chinese drug trafficking group. But nothing changed — except the scope of this kept getting bigger and bigger.
  6. Both ExportHub.com and eWorldTrade.com have been accused by hundreds of users via online reviews of also having defrauded them by getting them to sign up for premium accounts with the promise of guaranteed sales/leads and 100% refunds if not satisfied — only to pay thousands of dollars and in return get fake leads. And when the clients would ask for refunds, the refunds were denied.

The Business of Fraud: How Karachi’s Scam Industry Went Global

What you’re about to read isn’t some small-time side hustle. This is full-scale infrastructure — built deliberately to deceive, recruit, process payments, and drain victims dry. These scam software houses aren’t just operating out of Pakistan. They’ve planted themselves across the U.S. and UK with one goal: keep the money flowing, no matter what laws they break.

As I understand it, the largest scam the software houses of Karachi are pulling includes book publishing and ghost writing fraud, trademark registration fraud, mobile app development, logo designs, and customer service impersonation. But to do this, the scam software houses have had to build up significant infrastructure in America, specifically in Texas and in the UK, along with other countries. So again, the scale of this thing is just hard to wrap your head around, but for the sake of scamming Americans, these organizations have had to fly people out from Karachi to places like Texas and have them form companies, bank accounts, and payment processing accounts at firms like Stripe — basically acting as money mules. This is highly illegal in America, and the second someone from Pakistan on a visa to America does this, they invalidate the terms of their visa and could go to jail and then be deported.

So this thing, by the looks of it, would not surprise me if it accounted for a large part of Pakistan’s software exports, which exceeded USD $3.2 billion in 2024. Based on what I’ve been told about massive tax evasion and offshore financial shenanigans by the scam software houses, it would not surprise me if the total revenue generated by the scam software houses in 2024 matched the full USD $3.2 billion or even exceeded this number — because a lot of the money being blackmailed and stolen from folks in western countries across the globe doesn’t get sent to bank accounts in Pakistan, but is instead held in bank accounts in Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, and in countries like the United Kingdom, Malaysia, and Australia.

Alert for friends/family members of money mules in America: The actions you are carrying out in America might seem like a favor for a friend/family member — setting up a company, opening a bank account, moving some money here and there — but these are crimes that you can face serious jail time for. Now that Federal Law Enforcement agencies are on the trail of eWorldTrade and Azneem Bilwani, it is only a matter of time before the money mules are arrested en masse. All the signs point to several law enforcement agencies coordinating and working to disrupt the scam software houses of Karachi.

Based on customs records I’ve analyzed (totally public), I’ve found several shipments between Azneem Bilwani companies such as BS GARMENTS PRIVATE LIMITED and NUHAS RECYCLING LLC (incorporated by ABDULAZIZ SEMA). I’ve also found shipments between ABTech and a Pakistani resident in Texas by the name of Rameez Moiz. If anyone has any information on what is being shipped by these people between Texas and Pakistan, I’d love to find out.

Is Sybex Labs a 100% Abtach/Intersys operation?

A Web of Shell Companies and Digital Blackmail

There’s no shortage of names, brands, and shadowy operators behind these scam empires — but a handful of them keep popping up across multiple fronts. If you’re wondering who’s pulling the strings, how they’re connected, or where the money is going, pay close attention to what comes next.

I am also very curious about the Point-of-Sale business that all these software houses are involved in. And the truck dispatch scams that involve double booking trucks and stealing fuel credits. How do these scams work?

Another thing I am very curious about, ePlanet Global and its links to Olive Digital (PVT.) Limited. Here are some websites used by ePlanet Global and Olive Digital to scam westerners:

thebookpublishingcompany.com, warego.co, paramountlogos.com, amazonpublishergroup.com, thewebnovas.com, medibillmd.com, merriampublishers.com, thewebmastro.com, pinnacledesignagency.com, americandesignstudios.com, trangotech.com, ghostbookwriters.org, eplanetglobal.com, creativedesign360.com, ghostwriterscrew.com, customdesigngenius.com, webdesigncreators.com, limegreenapps.com, etechbuy.com, gotodirect.com, compudevices.com

Some big sources have come to me from inside Karachi software houses and they threw out some names and gave me some spreadsheets. Names like Faiz Ul Hassan and Abdul Qadir Fattani have come up many times. How does Faiz Ul Hassan of the software house Wordsense PVT LTD afford a Lamborghini, Porsche Panamera, Mercedes S550 and other luxury cars?

And Abdul Qadir Fattani is like a ghost, seemingly running 20 software houses but with very little public info about him. Who can give me more info about this big figure in the software house space of Karachi? Is he the Kaiser Soze of software houses? What are his links to TGT Nexus Pvt Ltd and Quad Tech Pvt Ltd? What is the role Usman Rogatia and Ebad Alvi play in relation to Abdul Qadir Fattani and his money printing machine? How is Tariq Fattani related to Abdul Qadir Fattani?

Legendesk (Pvt.) Ltd. and the folks behind it like Schergeil Parvez and Ramiz Shahid (alumni of the OG scam software house Axact). Associated folks: KHURRAM SIDDIQUI and Umamah J Siddiqui. Again more ties back to Texas. For the FIA officials reading, Legendesk (Pvt.) Ltd. is making in excess of $800,000 a month from scamming victims. They’re probably short-changing you and lying about the total take. Who has more info on Legendesk?

InovioTech Pvt Ltd is a big name in scam software houses of Karachi. Run by Roman Siddiqui and his right-hand man Umais Rohail. Hussain Rizvi is a big shining star at InovioTech. Fahad Aslam and Aqsa Salim are HR managers at this scam software house.

Here are some scam websites InovioTech Pvt Ltd is using to scam victims:

websitevalley.co.uk, visionarylogodesigns.co.uk, visionarywebdesigns.co.uk, visionarywebstudio.com, bookwritingbureau.com, amzinventor.com, ghostwritingfounder.com, theseovalley.com, bookwritingfounders.com, theappfounders.com, penguinpublishingcenter.com, arkhamhousepublishers.com, nytpublications.com, penguinauthorshouse.com, bluemountpublisher.com, authorpublications.com, houseofbestsellers.com, tribunepublisher.com, oxfordbookwriters.com, penguinbookwriter.com, nypublishers.co, loqodesigns.com, americanauthorsbay.com, 99logodesigns.com, penguinpublishersgroup.com

Behind the Curtain: The Network Hiding in Plain Sight

What looks like dozens of separate software houses is, in many cases, just a smoke screen. Strip away the names, logos, and fake directors, and what you’ll find is a tightly woven network — a fraud machine built on shell companies, recycled infrastructure, and the same handful of kingpins running the whole show.

InovioTech Pvt Ltd has an American company in Delaware called Infinity Service Inc. Who has more info for me about InovioTech Pvt Ltd and Roman Siddiqui? How many days of the year does Roman Siddiqui spend in Chicago?

Sassol Pvt Ltd, run by Abbas Mala and the brothers Khurram Iqbal, Khawar Iqbal, with the famous LLC Neom Media LLC. What are the scams they’re running?

Back to our old friends at Digitonics Labs. Burhan Mirza and the very pious Junaid Mansoor. It is my understanding that after the raids of 2021, Burhan Mirza thought up a genius plan to splinter Digitonics into many software houses so there’s no single lightning rod for FIA to come after and western media to target. I don’t think he planned for American Federal Law Enforcement to go after his Dr. Frankenstein-like creation though.

Digitonics Labs is huge and involved in large-scale scam operations based on FIA investigation documents and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Following public exposure and legal action, including arrests in a money laundering case by the FIA Cyber Crime unit, the company fragmented into smaller entities. These new entities operate under different names, each led by a new figurehead. Despite having distinct branding, websites, infrastructure, processes, and systems, many of these companies remain part of the same internal network.

These companies functionally operate under a single group, generating revenue from multiple sources. They function from various offices, using different website brands (pretending to be Amazon, Kindle, Penguin Books, the US Patent and Trademark Office), social media pages, and sales teams, but frequently share common payment gateways, such as Stripe, or the same bank account details for fund collection.

  • Skysoft Tech
    Operated by Ghayas Ghazali and Moiz Sattar
  • Probyte
    Operated by Kashif Hussain Shah
  • The Techrics
    Operated by Zain Rehan Siddique
  • Protechnologies (also known as Protech Pvt Ltd)
    Operated by Abdul Rehman Chhotani, Rehan Siddiqui, Waleed Yousaf, and Zaid Atique
  • Awesomate Pvt Ltd
    Operated by Ilhan Pervaiz Khan
  • Sleekhive Technologies Pvt Ltd

Anyone who can tell me more about Digitonics Labs and their offshoots gets a big prize (my gratitude).

Time to Choose: Keep Covering or Start Speaking Out

You’ve seen the names. You’ve read the evidence. This isn’t about one or two bad actors – it’s a whole ecosystem. And the cracks are already showing.
Now I want to hear from you. If you’ve got more names, more companies, or more intel – send it my way. Because this next batch is just the start.

Other scam software houses I am investigating include:

  • Saviours — Operated by Raza Hanif
  • Canvas Digital
  • Steller’s
  • BrandH20 (US scam company Verbytech LLC)
  • Divinatory Solutions
  • Codified Digitals and Subsidiaries — Operated by Syed Arbaz Ali Jafri (Includes: Ink Blaze Studios)
  • Meta Frolic Labs (Pvt.) Ltd. (suspected to be closely tied to Intersys)

At the end of the day I believe that people are all the same and want to be good and not do bad things in their hearts. The people of Karachi I’ve talked to are sick of their kids, brothers, sisters, cousins growing up with hopes of working at scam software houses like Intersys/Abtach, Digitonics Labs and more (the US Patent and Trademark Office have said these are scam software houses). Instead of selling fake book publishing pretending to be employees working for Amazon, these children should have an opportunity to build the next Amazon… That is not going to happen if the largest employers in Karachi remain a scam software house. An entire generation of young people growing up in Karachi have been taught that scamming and blackmailing foreigners is the best way to earn their paycheck. This is horrible for Pakistan in ways I can’t even begin to describe.

If you are a Pakistani with information on these scam software houses please reach out and share it with me. If you can’t help me directly then at least like, repost and spread awareness. If any of your relatives work at the mentioned software houses it would be good for you and your relief if they found some other line of work that doesn’t involve scamming people every day.

Irsa Faruqui: I have a fun note for Intersys fans — the very glamorous Irsa Faruqui who holidays on the Amalfi Coast and lives in Germany and Dubai not only put all her social media on private but changed her LinkedIn profile to say she works at Infosys in Karachi rather than Intersys. I contacted Infosys, a legitimate firm headquartered in India, and they confirmed they have no operations in Karachi and have no connection whatsoever to Irsa Faruqui. I guess someone who thinks nothing about lying to clients and viciously blackmailing them so she can live a life of luxury doesn’t think twice before lying on her LinkedIn that she works for a company that has nothing to do with her. Irsa Faruqui should be concerned about meeting the same fate as Muhammad Salman Yousuf. Azneem Bilwani always looks out for number one and doesn’t think twice about throwing people under the bus.

On the topic of Muhammad Salman Yousuf, it is very unfortunate that he has involved his wife Bushra Shoaib in a number of his schemes. Bushra Shoaib’s name is on businesses incorporated by Salman Yousuf along with Fahad Ali.

If you are a scam software house owner you should know your competitors are reaching out to me and sending me screenshots and spreadsheets and the names of your American money mules, your company brands, your scam websites, and much more. Why not return the favor?

If you think I am done, you would be wrong. I am parsing some intel passed to me on one of the largest business conglomerates in Pakistan run by some of the most prominent members of Pakistani society — a veritable business dynasty that has set up large scamming and blackmailing software houses… All this and more are coming soon.

Islam emphasizes honesty and truthfulness in all aspects of life. It is haram to work for a scam software house that blackmails and scams victims. The Qur’an’s Surah Al-Mutaffifin specifically has verses condemning fraud in very harsh terms.

If you’re still helping these operations — whether you’re building scam websites, laundering funds, or just turning a blind eye — you’re complicit. It’s only a matter of time before the law catches up.

And if you’re ready to flip the script, I’m all ears. Got names? Documents? Screenshots? Spreadsheets? Send them through. Every piece helps build the case.

— Danny de Hek
The Crypto Ponzi Scheme Avenger

About the Author

Danny de Hek, also known as The Crypto Ponzi Scheme Avenger, is a New Zealand-based investigative journalist specializing in exposing crypto fraud, Ponzi schemes, and MLM scams. His work has been featured by Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Guardian Australia, ABC News Australia, and other international outlets.

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