Tazeen AkhtarDigitization has made easy many things including saving money in online accounts and transactions without going to bank but the risks are higher here as well of being looted by the Scammers. Same happened with one Ali Mujtaba, resident of G-11/1 Islamabad when a scammer/ hacker deprived him of 35,300 pkr in his easy paisa. Moreover the hacker managed to borrow 5,000 pkr and transacted whole money from Ali’s Easypaisa Account: 03145126357 to other accounts.
” The scammer posed as an EasyPaisa representative, who defrauded me by siphoning off my money to the tune of Rs. 41300 , shared the victim Ali.
The numbers that were used by the scammer are as follows:
03478516423 (for cellphone call)
00920211113737 (missed call)
03491881151 (for whatsapp video call that was used to capture my photo)
The transactions were made to the following account holders from Ali’s Easypaisa account by the scammer/hacker:
1. Muhammad Ismail (Rs. 10,000 vide transaction ID 27167193751 – last 4 visible Raast/IBAN digits ***7463 at 14:52:18 on March 27, 2024)
2. Muhammad Ismail (Rs. 11,300 vide transaction ID 27166953398 last 4 visible Raast/IBAN digits ***7463 at 14:38:31 on March 27, 2024)
3. Parveen Bibi (Rs. 20,000 vide transaction ID 27167378270 last 4 visible Raast/IBAN digits ***5906 at 15:01:37 on March 27, 2024)
4. EasyPaisa Loan Rs.5000 in my name upon hacking into my Easypaisa account at 14:37 on March 27, 2024 vide Ref# 1772920748310982656 which was added to the aforementioned transaction number 2 of Rs. 11300 to Muhammad Ismail vide vide transaction ID 27166953398.
However, the worst part of this fraud is, that EasyPaisa representatives on their helpline, after keeping Ali waiting on hold for more than 10 minutes, instead of fully listening to the complaint, hung up on him. There was no response from Easypaisa on their Whatsapp helpline as well.
