Pakistani cyber crime agency arrests 212 people in call centre raids targeting international fraud schemes involving Google scams and romance fraud.
Pakistani authorities arrested 212 people across three Islamabad call centres suspected of running international fraud schemes targeting foreign nationals. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency recovered hundreds of phones and computers during the raids, with detainees including Chinese and Pakistani nationals allegedly involved in Google scams and romance fraud.
- ▪NCCIA raided call centres in Islamabad sectors E-11 and G-10, detaining 212 suspects in 24 hours
- ▪Recovered 306 mobile phones, 383 computers, and 299 monitors and laptops from the facilities
- ▪Detainees included both Chinese and Pakistani men and women of various nationalities
- ▪Suspects allegedly ran Google scams and ‘low-dating’ romance fraud schemes targeting foreign nationals
- ▪Investigation found network connections to India and Brazil
- ▪Last week NCCIA arrested 27 suspects in Karachi operating a similar international scam call centre
- ▪In August, agency arrested 114 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese, running cyber-romance and sextortion network from registered IT business
- ▪Scammers posed as financial institution representatives using spoofed calls to steal personal and financial data
- ▪Case registered and formal investigation underway
Source: according to media reports
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