Mahmood -Ul -Hasan, Director General of National Cybercrime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), told Independent Urdu on Thursday that his company received 70,000 complaints in the last six months, while the number of complaints received in a year is 1.5 million.
He said that the largest number of complaints received by the company is a financial cyber offense, while the second is a complaint of oppression and defamation.
Earlier on Thursday, officials of the National Cybercrime Investigation Agency at the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology have revealed that the money transaction in cybercrime is done through handicrafts or cryptocurrency.
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In a meeting chaired by Chairperson Senator Pulosha Khan headed by officials of the National Cybercrime Investigation Agency, who has done effective monitoring and online crime, gave a briefing at illegal call centers.
The director of the agency, Mahmood -Ul -Hasan, told the committee that his agency had so far arrested 248 people belonging to fake call centers.
According to Mahmud -Ul -Hasan: ’54 raids were conducted, most of which were done in Islamabad. After that, raids were also conducted in the cities of Multan and Multan of Punjab province. ,
DGNCCIA stated that they are called call centers in general knowledge, but they register their companies as information technology (IT) company.
How do ‘fake call centers’ work?
DGNCIA told the Standing Committee that the new one to join these ‘call centers’ in the name of the IT company has been given in the first 14 days.
He revealed: ‘The first step is to make employees in fake call centers to trap anyone. After simple profiling, targeted profiling is done and it is seen what these people are posting on their social media (social networking websites) and what the nature of these positions is, it shows interest in their specific things. ,
According to Mahmudul Hasan: ‘Fake call center employees eat mostly on social networking websites in the name of women. After that, these people make different proposals to the people. For example, these individuals move to the public in various ways including gaming, advertising and investment. Initially, the affected person wins a few rupees, but after some time, they are asked to invest money. ,
He said that ‘demand for money or demand is on social networking applications on Telegram. Various groups are established on Telegram, where investors also ask for money by looking at the person clearly affected. When the person spends money, it is expelled from the group and blocked from elsewhere. ,
He said that money transactions are not through banking applications, but reference is through bill or cryptocurrency.
DGNCCIA said the case against many people caught in cyber fraud is weak and is guaranteed as most of their people are living in other countries and cannot come to Pakistan, but their facilities are located in Pakistan and abroad.
During the meeting, especially advocate Tariq Mahmood Khattak, who looks at the cases of cybercrime, said that these fake call centers take people’s data from the dark web, where companies sell public data.
Meanwhile, the chairperson committee senator Pulosha Khan said that his mobile phone has also been hacked thrice.
DGNCIA said that 434 people work in their organization and they have a serious lack of manpower.
He revealed that Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police do not have a forensic laboratory, due to which both companies use NCCIA Forensic Laboratory.
Later, the committee called the NCCIA chief for a briefing. In the next meeting of the committee, they will be informed on cyber crime.