The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing (CCW) has launched a probe against the loan-lending smartphone apps that are allegedly involved in blackmailing their clients.
The apps include PK Loan, Easy Loan, and Fast Loan. According to FIA, these apps provide loans on a 2-6% markup.
However, these apps unlawfully gain access to personal data, including contacts, on clients’ smartphones and start blackmailing them to pay a 40% markup instead, FIA noted. Furthermore, if the borrowers do not pay the additional markup, they threaten to leak their photos.
Also, FIA revealed that the teams behind these apps approach debtors and demand money from them under the name of resolving the issues, adding that they mostly target women as compared to men.
The FIA launched an inquiry after multiple female victims filed complaints against the aforementioned apps. It is unknown how these companies offer loans and demand markups without being registered with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). It casts serious doubts on the country’s regulatory bodies.
Via 24News
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Today i also got call from one of the app saying that someone given my phone number as reference without my consent and they accepted it. What a unprofessional behaviour and this raised the question mark on their credibility.
Even NBFIs registered with SECP can make loans to general public (depending on tbe further category of their license) so the last statement looks a bit loose.
بدقسمتی سے تمام اداروں میں نااہلوں اور نکموں کی وافر مقدار میں موجودگی کی وجہ سے ادارے ہی تباہی کا شکار ہیں ۔اسطرح کے فراڈ ہمارے ملک میں بہت زیادہ ہیں ہاؤسنگ سکیم ، لون اسکیم بے نظیر انکم سپورٹ پروگرام الغرض ہرطرح کا فراڈ کھلے عام ہو رہا ہے اور اسکی مکمل تشہیر ہوتی ہے اور بلکل اصلی اور گورنمنٹ سے منظور شدہ سکیم بتا کر سالہاسال تک خریدوفروخت ہوتی ہے اور بعد میں گورنمنٹ ادارے جاگتے ہیں تو عام عوام کا کام ہو چکا ہوتا ہے۔
FIA officials plz in farud apps ko fori tor par bandh kar ke in badmaash tole ko inke anjaam tak pohnchaye
This steps should have been taken when this type of scheme started. FIA and other departments were on leave.
Ohh God good to hear this news, they are 100% fraud , my stupid brother took some lone from them and ended up paying them double. They blackmailed him and start using bad lenguage with the references he had given.
Bohat jaldi yaad Aya hai aplogon ko… Jab loog interest py interest dy rahay hain blackmail ho KY
Kindly work fast because these all apps are fraud they call people again and again and threat that your data is leaked your personal numbers, kindly work hard for these scam like zeta loan, barwaqat loan, easyloan,sweet loan, mr.loan,aasan qarza, like these all apps are fraud person
Please also take step against Amna online foundation They also involved in blackmailing people on the behalf of loan.Their names with mobile numbers are..
+92 344 0741396 Murad Khan
03106321799 Ghazanfar
same here Their are many more apps and they have called people in my contact list and have been blackmailing me as well
These people are just monster 💀 killing people
Sam here totally fak application recover from my and reference number collect to all my reference number call third massage
I am victim of this. I received 100+ calls in just 2 days and the people asked to pay the loan even they use slang language and etc etc.
Dear FIA Team, Please take some corrective action against these loan companies
(PECA ACT 21)
Qanoon kehta hy ager tm ne dhamki di kisi k number per call ki kisi k sath kisi ka bhe data share kya to tumhay 10 lac jurmana 10 year saal Qaid ki saza hogi.
Ye jawab dya kero jo tumhay phine keren ye registered company nahe hoti un k against FIA herkat ma hy, ye isreali agenda hy in ko wapis na bhe kero to ye ap ka kuch nahe bigar saktay. ager ye qanoon k pas jayen gay in per bhari jurmana or 10 years ki saza hogi. PECA ACT isi k lyei bana hy koi tumhara data kisi k sath share keray to wo cybercrime ma ata hy.
Loanapp waley muj ko dhamkiya de rahey hai is k per action Liya jahey plz