ISIS blamed for selling counterfeit PPE online to fund psychological warfare

Dread gatherings situated in the Middle East are focusing on American specialists on call in an online trick, government investigators said Wednesday. The gatherings are purportedly attempting to fund-raise by offering fake individual defensive hardware during a period of frantic deficiencies in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. 

ISIS purportedly utilized the site facemaskcenter.com as a front for selling counterfeit N-95 covers, as per a senior Department of Justice official. Their objectives purportedly included medical clinics, nursing homes and specialists on call. 

"They have an advanced online activity, and here they were turning that activity to setting up these fake sites to get cash to subsidize psychological warfare. At the point when you thought you were paying for a veil that you required," Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division John Demers revealed to CBS News. 

A senior Justice Department official disclosed to CBS News that the ISIS COVID-19 extortion is "only a cut" of the general crime that is intended to spread dread encompassing the infection. 

Agents from the Justice Department, FBI, Homeland Security and the IRS additionally found that psychological militants from al-Qaida and Hamas utilized web based life and digital currency to fund-raise for weapons and tasks. 

U.S. specialists seized $2 million and more than 300 cryptographic money accounts in what was depicted as the greatest instance of its sort.

Resource: CBS NEWS