Scam Radar

Group: "Investment Doubling Pakistan 🚀". Admin posts screenshots of people receiving double payments. Send Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 50,000 to JazzCash 03XX-XXXXXXX and receive 100% profit in 48 hours. New members must invest within 2 hours of joining. When I sent Rs. 20,000, admin said my "slot was missed" and demanded Rs. 20,000 more for the next slot.

Our office committee (bc) of 14 members, Rs. 15,000 each, was run by a colleague who collected everyone's monthlies in his personal Easypaisa. He took the 4th month's pool ("kitty") himself and then stopped replying. He has now started a new committee in another office with the same trick. Reported to office admin but money is gone.

App: "EasyTask Earn". Complete daily tasks (like YouTube videos, rate hotels) and earn Rs. 1,800/day. After 3 days my balance was Rs. 5,400 but withdrawal needs VIP-2 level, which requires a Rs. 6,000 deposit. Telegram "teacher" says deposit is refundable. After deposit, app demanded Rs. 9,000 "tax clearance". Balance frozen.

Agent from a "travel company" offered a private hajj package Rs. 350,000 "under market rate because of group quota". Paid Rs. 120,000 advance "visa fee" in cash/ JazzCash. Later his number was off and the office address was a rented room. He was not registered with the DGOP. Many families from our mosque lost amounts.

Caller claimed to be from National Savings Pakistan. Said my old Rs. 40,000 prize bond had won Rs. 35 lakh in a special draw, but Rs. 85,000 "withholding tax" must be paid first to release the cheque to my address. Asked me to stay on the phone and go to the nearest Easypaisa shop while he guided the transfer.

An agent messaged university students claiming inside access to a "HEC-France scholarship 2026". Rs. 12,000 "file charges" and your CNIC, passport scan and father's number required to "reserve the seat". The scholarship did not exist on the HEC site. He had our class group numbers somehow.

A relative took me to a "business seminar" in a hotel. The scheme: buy a Rs. 380,000 "product package" to become a distributor, then earn by recruiting couples under you. Income slides showed members earning dollars monthly. Products were vague "wellness" items nobody used. Everyone I asked had earnings only from new joiners.

WhatsApp forward with heartbreaking flood photos: "Donate for Shahpur flood victims. We are a registered NGO. JazzCash/Easypaisa: 03XX-XXXXXXX (Muhammad Bhai, treasurer). Even Rs. 500 will earn you sawab." The photos were from an old news article. The CNIC and NGO registration number in the message were fake when checked.

Facebook page auctions "custom-seized" iPhones and PS5s at a quarter of market price ("custom ka maal, sealed box"). Winners pay Rs. 35,000 advance to a JazzCash account for "courier clearance". Nobody in the group ever received anything; the page deletes negative comments and runs weekly live auctions.

Assalam o Alaikum. I am calling from the Prime Minister Youth Programme. Your interest-free loan of Rs. 800,000 has been approved under the Youth Business scheme. To release the file you must pay a processing fee of Rs. 5,500 today to JazzCash 03XX-XXXXXXX. This is government money, first come first serve. If you do not pay today your file will be cancelled. Do not tell anyone, it is confidential.

Instagram store "BrandedOutlet.PK" sold "original" Nike/Adidas at half price, cash on delivery. Paid Rs. 6,500 COD to the courier. Box contained newspaper and one wrong-size slipper. Page blocked me after I asked for refund; same stock photos reappeared next day on a new page name.

URGENT: Your LESCO electricity bill Rs. 8,742 is overdue. Connection will be disconnected tonight 8 PM. Pay now: lescobill-pay.xxx to avoid disconnection. Link opened a card payment page. Real LESCO never collects via SMS links.