Four held for online fraud

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LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency’s cybercrime wing on Thursday arrested four suspects for defrauding people.

According to the FIA, the suspects -- Rasheed, Awais, Adeel and Tasawar -- would make calls to the people introducing themselves as bank employees and get the details of their accounts and withdraw amounts.

The FIA Faisalabad raided their whereabouts at Shahkot, Nankana Sahib and arrested them.

Nine cell phones and a number of SIMs were recovered from them.

A case has been registered against them.

Meanwhile, the FIA immigration at Sialkot airport arrested passenger Nauman Ali for trying to reach Belgium through a fake resident permit.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2023

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