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National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes (NR3C), FIA?s wing for dealing with cyber crimes, yesterday inaugurated an SMS alert system for masses in the country to aware them about cyber crimes.
NR3C, under this new initiative, will send out SMS alerts to Pakistani mobile phone users about trending cyber crimes, including but not limited to fake lotteries, money prizes, fake ads, Facebook security, privacy matters and so on.
NR3C told ProPakistani that information about usual fraud types, and other cyber crimes will be communicated to masses. It said that aim is to aware users about any possible cyber threats they might face in their usual lives.
Currently NR3C is using a paid SMS service from a telco with monthly capacity of 10,000 SMS broadcast, but agency is working on getting in touch with PTA to partner with telcos to get more subscribers covered.
Register Your Complaint About Cyber Crimes
NR3C has also enhanced its internal system to make sure that cyber crime complaints registered with the agency are processed more quickly and efficiently.
Anyone, registering a complaint with Nr3C, will now get a complaint number that can be followed up with the agency for outcomes. NR3C said that it has enhanced its internal complaint management system in a way that now complaints will be processed with-in a day and any possible outcomes will be communicated to complainant with-in a week.
Citizens can register their complaints with NR3C about any cyber crime using below methods:
- SMS/Call your problem to this number: 0336-6006060
- Tel: # 051-9106384
- Email your complaint: helpdesk@nr3c.gov.pk
- Send Hard copy of your complaint to this address:
- National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes
A more detailed post on how to report any cyber crimes or to register your complaint with Cyber Crime Wing if FIA is
How to Register Complaint with FIA
(Cyber Crime Wing)
As we are getting into internet era, cyber crime rates are hiking in similar manner. Many of us don?t know how to legally challenge those criminal activities.
A common internet or mobile phone user, who is victim of a cyber crime, thinks that there is no one to listen his/her pleas. Many of victims end up not registering any complaint.
If you are victim of any sort of cyber crime, don?t sit idle, this is the time to react to get the culprits behind the bars. Registering a complaint with FIA?s cyber crime wing is very simple, and even does not require you to go anywhere.
Simply write down your application (in English or in Urdu), narrate your complete problem, provide as much evidences, details as you can and send it to FIA National Response Center for Cyber Crimes(NR3C).
Address this application to,
To Director Cyber Crimes,
FIA Heaquarters, Islamabad
Write down your problem, with complete details? and in the end mention your name, contact numbers and addresses.
Fax: 051-9266435
Email: helpdesk@nr3c.gov.pk
In case of email, you will get a response email in 24 hours however it may take 7 days to get a letter by post at your given address in case of fax. You will be given a tracking number of your complaint, with what you may check the status of your complaint latter on.
Please note that FIA accepts applications in only these two formats. Cyber Crime wing will not act unless you write them email or FAX. This is sort of FIR you register with Police.
If you want to know what crimes come under Cyber Crime, read this PDF document (Electronic crimes related laws in Pakistan).
You may call FIA Nr3C offices for consultation ? Contact details are available here
Tip: Don?t shy or fear of anything ? FIA NR3C guys are pretty helping and very cool. If you are a victim, simply reach them at earliest.
Here are more contact details of FIA Cyber Crime Wing:
Project Director
National Response Center for Cyber Crimes
FIA Head Quarter
G-9/4, Islamabad
Tel: # 051-9106380
Fax: # 051-9106383
Help Desk
National Response Center for Cyber Crimes
FIA Head Quarter
G-9/4, Islamabad
Tel: # 051-9106384
Cell: # 0336-6006060
Fax: # 051-9106383
Email: helpdesk@nr3c.gov.pk
Beware: Fraudsters Use SMS Spoofing to Target Mobile Users with Fake Prizes
Above screen shows an SMS ? received by at least two of our of ProPakistani readers ? which claims that receiver of the SMS has won a bumper prize of Rs. 1,000,000 or Rs. 1 million and they need to contact some guy named Faisal Qareem to claim prize money and so on.
Message is received from TELENOR PK intriguing the receiver that this is some kind of official communication from Telenor and that this announcement of prize is officially from the company.
However, it is not.
While we have repeatedly written about such lottery frauds, SMS frauds and similar activities in the past, the idea of SMS spoofing has now become a new tool for the fraudsters to victimize innocent souls.
Our readers would know that SMS Spoofing is a way of sending message with any desired Senders? number or even a Name, such as Telenor PK or Ufone or anything. Read one of our previous articles to know more about SMS Spoofing, how it works and how to detect a Spoofed message.
But just imagine a situation where this message is received by relatively unaware and resource-less individual in a far flung area of the country, it is very likely that he is going to call back on the number given in the text message.
Soon after calling the number, it is highly likely that he will get trapped as fraudsters will not only convince him on the fact that this message is officially from the company but will also convince the person that he has indeed won a Million rupees and that his life is about to get changed.
But before that victim will have to deposit some amount into an account or send it through Easypaisa/Mobicash as a processing fee for the prize money to be sent to the supposed winner.
After depositing this money (that can range from Rs. 2,500 to anything around Rs. 25,000 or even more) the fraudsters will never respond your call/messages or they will never revert back and you will end up with nothing but with a loss of money.
How to Detect a Fake Prize Call/SMS
- First thing, you can?t win anything unless you have participated in it, be it a lucky draw, contest or anything, but you should have participated in something to win it. So simply discard any unannounced lottery prizes where you never participated
- No company in this world will ask you for processing fee if the prize is real or legitimate. Simply discard or ignore such calls/SMS that end up asking for a processing fee.
- Contact the official numbers of the respective company to counter check any of such prizes, that is 345 for Telenor, 333 for Ufone and so on.
We know this is how it works, but unfortunately there are millions of people who still don?t know this and they easily get trapped through such fake prizes.
What PTA Should Do Against Such Fake Prizes?
Now is the high-time for our government to introduce fraud control systems, that are capable of sensing the fraud messages. This is very much possible and in fact PTA once asked operators to deploy such systems to check obnoxious and marketing messages.
PTA should work in-line with the operators to make sure that such fraud SMS aren?t delivered to mobile phone subscribers.
PTA should also start an awareness campaign to communicate the masses about such frauds. But just print ads won?t do much. PTA will have to come up with workshops, seminars, social media campaigns, story telling on radio, awareness dramas serials and so on to reach the people that are least connected with the national communication grid.
