US targets Iranian financial services firm

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted an Iranian national, Seyed Sajjad Shahidian, for helping Iranian businesses buy goods from the U.S. through his firm, Payment24.

According to press release,[1] “PAYMENT24 sold a package to assist its Iranian clients with making online purchases from United States-based businesses, which included a PayPal account, a fraudulent ‘ID card and address receipt,’ a remote IP address from the United Arab Emirates, and a Visa gift card. The PAYMENT24 website also offered its clients advice on how to create accounts with a foreign identity and how to avoid restrictions on foreign websites, including advising clients to ‘never attempt to log into those sites with an Iranian IP address.’”

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