Caught out: FIA busts online fraud network

FIA received info of credit card users being utilised to make counterfeit credit cards and online purchases. PHOTO: ONLINE

LAHORE: The FIA has rounded up eight members of an international network on charges of online financial fraud through its National Response Centre for #CyberCrime, The Express Tribune has learnt.

“This is the first such arrest carried out by the FIA,” said Dr Usman Anwar, director of the FIA in Punjab.

According to a copy of the FIR, the Cyber Crime Circle received word that the information of different credit card users was being utilised to make counterfeit credit cards and online purchases, including luxury items and bookings at national and international hotels. The group involved in the fraud also looted millions of rupees through a lottery scam.

A FIA team raided Model Town’s Al-Hafeez Plaza, where two members of the group were due to meet. Local and international credit cards were recovered from their possession. A case has been registered with the FIA Cyber Crime Circle’s police station. The Express Tribune