A judicial magistrate has sent six suspects to jail on judicial remand in a case pertaining to alleged illegal call centre.
Raheel, Leon Samson Dean alias Vini, Edison Aftab alias Addi, Hamza Shaikh, Leonard Edgar Dead alias Avi, and Joshua Harrison alias Harry were arrested by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) during a raid on a bungalow in Block-12 of Gulistan-e-Johar on June 9.
The investigating officer produced the suspects before Judicial Magistrate (East) Gulraiz Memon on completion of their two-day physical remand and sought an extension in their physical remand for further interrogation. However, the magistrate remanded the suspects in judicial custody with a direction to the IO to submit a charge sheet within the stipulated time.
According to the FIR, an NCCIA team conducted a raid on the bungalow, where an “illegal scam call centre” was said to be operating. It said that the NCCIA examined the devices, which revealed suspicious material indicating invovlement in “illegal financial fraud activities through call center operations.”
“Call dialers and spoofing software, used in the commission of such offenses, were also found, along with data relating to financial institutions and sensitive and confidential personal banking information of foreign nationals,” added the FIR.
“During on-the-spot questioning, all the above agents disclosed that all data relating to foreign nationals had been provided by the owner of the call center, namely Raheel through Arnold Dean.”
During the initial technical analysis of the seized devices, the NCCIA said, it was “established that the suspects were involved in making fraudulent calls through spoofing diallers, impersonating representatives of various U.S. banks and debt resolution/settlement agencies, in order to carry out unauthorized and illegal transfers of funds, as well as to extract personal and sensitive information for wrongful gain by manipulating foreign nationals through carefully devised scripts and rebuttals.”
