The National Cyber Crime Research Agency (NCCIA) conducted a successful raid last night in an illegal call center in Islamabad and arrested five foreigners, according to a press release issued Monday.
The Nccia press release stated that more than 60 people worked at the call center, of which five foreign citizens were arrested during the raid.
“In addition to these arrests, the NCCIA will take more legal measures against those who provided facilities and security to these people,” the statement said.
A spokesman reiterated the agency’s resolution to continue its operations against all these illegal activities that equals a violation of the laws of the country.
A first information report (FIR) was registered on Sunday by the plaintiff Aamir Azeem Abbasi regarding a “scam -based scam that resulted in a financial loss.”
According to the FIR, a reliable source reported that a criminal gang was operating a call center located in Sardar Plaza, G-10 Markaz, Islamabad.
A consultation concluded that the activities of the call center were carried out “with an active collusion to each other by impersonating representatives of a false and doubtful company online gains.”
The FIGUE also said “the hidden reasons for extorting money, contacting people of different nationalities and attracting them to a doubtful scheme of easy money consumption.”
The equipment used in the execution of the digital scam was found and owned by Nccia Islamabad.
“The accused people could not present any legal justification” and confessed to work as a gang to perform electronic fraud through extortion and supplantation. “
The gang used photos downloaded online and generated by AI and false characters to “start conversations with isolated or vulnerable people through social networks such as Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp through the hunting of victims.”
The Operation, per the fir, was a multi-tier set-up consisting of scammers that chat with victims initially, telegram receptionists who receive collected information on the victims to lure that in for more advanced tasks, Finance Managers, Who Managed Crypto Crypto Accounts for Receiving Fraudulent Funds Generated Via Local and International Scams, and “Killers”, Who Resides in Foreign Countries Like Cambodia and Empty Victims’ Bank Accounts under the pretext of online gains.
The FIR concluded that the accused gang extorted “huge amounts of money from local Pakistani victims, as well as international victims, accessing their confidential information and using these data poorly to extort money. This fraudulent money is in layers through cryptocurrency wallets.”
The raid follows a similar incident last week in which the NCCIA claimed to have arrested 149 people, including 48 Chinese and nationals from other countries, for their alleged participation in online fraud during a raid in a factory in Faisalabad.
Days after the arrest, a Special Court of Faisalabad allowed a five -day physical return of 87 suspects, including 18 women, allegedly involved in several cyber crimes, and sent another 62 to the district prison in a judicial rowgling of 14 days, at the request of the NCCIA.
Last month, 18 suspects that are believed to be involved in a high -profile online fraud were arrested and produced before a Karachi court. A judicial magistrate sent them under the custody of the Nccia for the interrogation.
In May, the NCCIA, in coordination with the Federal Office of Investigation of the United States (FBI) and the Dutch police, arrested 21 suspects involved in operations of cyber crimes and digital fraud worth millions of dollars in fine and lahore.
