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School bomb threats in Mumbai, Delhi, Noida: UP ATS arrests Kanpur man accused of selling 5 lakh fake email IDs to foreign buyers for cryptocurrency

UP ATS arrested 24-year-old Ankit Shankhwar from Kanpur for creating and selling approximately 5 lakh fake email IDs to foreign buyers in exchange for cryptocurrency since 2021. Some of the fake email accounts were used to send bomb threats to schools in Noida, Delhi, Mumbai, and Gurugram; one account allegedly sold to a Bangladeshi contact for 6,000 USDT was used for threats. Investigators seized a laptop and mobile phone containing Excel files with email credentials, passwords, and two-factor authentication codes; Shankhwar allegedly found customers through Facebook groups dealing in…

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