Man Charged with Operating Online Marketplaces Selling Fraudulent Montana Driver’s Licenses and Other Identity Documents Used by Cybercriminals

According to U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme, Zahid Hasan, 29, of Dhaka, Bangladesh, was charged in a nine-count federal indictment unsealed in the District of Montana for operating illegal online marketplaces that sold digital templates of false identity documents, including U.S. passports, U.S. social security cards, and Montana driver’s licenses.

The indictment alleges Hasan operated multiple online businesses based out of Bangladesh, named “TechTreek” and “EGiftCardStoreBD,” from at least 2021 through 2025, selling and transferring digital versions of false documents to customers worldwide. Customers could pay with virtual currencies to obtain a U.S. passport template for about $12, a U.S. social security card for $9.37, and a Montana driver’s license for $14.05, with more than $2.9 million in receipts from over 1,400 customers over four years.

On 13 May 2025, Hasan accepted Bitcoin payments from an individual in Bozeman, Montana and then transferred or attempted to transfer fraudulent templates of U.S. passports, U.S. social security cards, and Montana driver’s licenses to that person. The United States seized three domains—www.techtreek[.]com, www.egiftcardstorebd[.]com, and www.idtempl[.]com—to further Hasan’s fraudulent documents business, and prosecutors say the case is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Hargrove, with the FBI’s Billings Division and Salt Lake City Cyber Task Force leading the investigation.