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I am filing a complaint regarding a fraudulent service and subsequent harassment and extortion attempt. On February 26, 2025, I made a payment of $1 to a company operating under the website thecasesolutions.com (managed by Yusuf Shakeel Hashmi, based in Karachi, Pakistan). The service was advertised as academic case study solutions. However, the service provided was unsatisfactory and also they told me the charge $100 after providing the service. Red flag. On Marcg 26, 2025 I see another$100 transaction by COPECART(payment platform used). On confrontation, the agent cooked a story that this was pending transaction and all my card info is deleted from their system. They made to threat to report me to a University I was applying to for academic dishonesty if I did a chargeback. Regrettably, I didn't take any action then, hoping this would go away. On April 25, 2025, an unauthorized charge of $200 appeared on my card from the same entity, without any prior agreement or notification. I immediately called my bank(CHASE) and locked my card and filed a claim for both $200 and $100 (previous month) transactions. Due to these unauthorized and fraudulent charges, I rightfully disputed the transactions through my bank (Chase). Following the dispute, on April 27, 2025, I received abusive and threatening WhatsApp messages from a person identifying himself as "Senior Compliance Manager, Sam Rogers," contacting me from +1 (517) 280-3775. In these messages, they: Used abusive and aggressive language. Threatened to falsely accuse me of academic dishonesty by contacting my university (IESE Business School) and its faculty. Claimed to have unauthorized access to my emails, IP logs, and personal data, suggesting illegal surveillance and data breach. Demanded repayment plus a penalty under the threat of damaging my academic reputation and admission. This behavior constitutes fraud, harassment, extortion, and threats of privacy invasion. Business Details (based on research): Websites: thecasesolutions.com, moveism.com, iscorpion.org Alleged Owner: Yusuf Shakeel Hashmi (also associated with "Legal Shark" law firm in Karachi) Mailing Address: 61c, 3rd floor, 21 Commercial Street, DHA Phase 2 Extension, Karachi, 75500, Pakistan Email addresses: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Action Requested: I respectfully request the FTC to investigate this individual and his associated websites for deceptive business practices, fraud, harassment, extortion, and potential data privacy violations. I also request that steps be taken to warn other consumers and, if possible, to take down these fraudulent websites. I have seen a lot of students who have suffered similar extortion on forums like https://essayscam.org/forum/es/thecasesolutions-onlineexamhelp-examonlinehelp-5028/ Thank you for your attention to this matter.