Director FIA Islamabad, Shakeel Durrani on Friday said an accused person namely Saqibullah son of Noor Kamal Khan, resident of Defence Colony, KRL Road Rawalpindi was arrested on November 27, 2017 for illegal manufacturing and usage of credit cards information, hacking, stealing data from national and international banks credit cards and blackmailing through social media accounts.
Giving details in a press conference here on Friday, he said a case had been registered against the accused person and other gang members.
He said the accused person is also involved in sale and purchase of national and international credit cards database issued/registered in the name of different individuals and organizations. The accused person is also involved in blackmailing females.
He said upon receipt of subject information and after permission of competent authority, a raid was conducted. During search, on pointing of accused person some devices/articles were recovered and seized.
These included 20 Blank PVC Cards, one Magnetic Strip Reader (MSR), a skimmer, a laptop computer, two credit cards in the name of Rasheeda Begum and Noor Kamal, and a mobile phone set.
Shakeel Durrani said accordingly subject case was registered against the above said accused and he was arrested in accordance with the law.
He said during course of investigation, it came on record that the accused Saqibullah was having direct connection with Indian Hacker namely Sorev through his social media account i.e. Facebook and ICQ (Internet Messenger), who directed the accused to take pictures of Pakistani ATM terminals and send the same to him in order to prepare a special Skimmer (Data Reading Machine) for further criminal activities.
The accused person had taken the required photos of different ATM terminals of twin cities i.e. Rawalpindi and Islamabad and the same were to be sent to an Indian Hacker, but he was arrested.
Beside Indian Hacker, he is having direct connections with Canadian, Nigerian, US and Italian Cyber Criminal Hackers and he collected bulks of credit cards data from the said international miscreants.
He said the accused person Saqibullah used to purchase the illegally accessed/stolen/hacked data of international credit cards from international hackers who were his friends on social websites.
The accused person Saqibullah used to sell the credit cards data/information to international hackers and then collected money through Western Union upon bogus/tempered Computerized National Identity Cards (CNlCs) in the name/particulars of his family members/relatives as well as common citizens.
He said Saqibullah used to temper/alter genuine CNICs of his family members and relatives to receive money through Western Union against sold data of credit cards.
The accused person Saqibullah also used to temper/alter the genuine CNICs of his family members/relatives to execute transactions through counterfeit/bogus credit cards being prepared by him in order to present tempered CNICs to Point of Sale (POS) operator/owner.
The accused person also prepared international credit cards in the name of his family members i e. Rasheeda Begum (mother) and Noor Kamal (father) and wrote the hacked credit card information of someone-else over credit card of his father/mother and further used them to purchase goods from national/international online warehouses. Saqibullah also used to blackmail different local females.
The accused person Saqibullah purchased the aforementioned banned devices through his friend namely Ayesha, residing in Italy, from China through e-bay.com and delivery was made to him through international courier services.
The accused person is also maintaining/operating an international credit account of Payoneer - online sale /purchase platform, having website i.e www.payoneer.com in name of his cousin.
The accused is under physical custody for 11 days so far and the case is under investigation. Efforts are being made to locate other gang members. The role of his family members -- father, mother, sister and cousin is to be examined in subject case.