• About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Contact
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
  • Login
Best Technologies
  • Home
  • News
  • Tech
  • Spotlight

    Beyond Short-Term Fixes: How Themis Ecosystem Brings Long-Term Green Solutions

    A look inside both the Legion Go and Steam Deck OLED

    Construction robot builds massive stone walls on its own

    Receive an alert when one of your contacts is about to have a special day

    Here are the best iPad deals right now

    Here are the best smart locks you can buy right now

    Biomass Ultima Micro: A Smart Innovation That Solves a Big Problem

    What is an ‘AI prompt engineer’ and does every company need one?

    Recycled coffee grounds can be used to make stronger concrete

  • Business
  • Space
  • Videos
  • More
    • Mobile
    • Windows
    • Energy
    • Security
    • Health
    • Entertainment
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Tech
  • Spotlight

    Beyond Short-Term Fixes: How Themis Ecosystem Brings Long-Term Green Solutions

    A look inside both the Legion Go and Steam Deck OLED

    Construction robot builds massive stone walls on its own

    Receive an alert when one of your contacts is about to have a special day

    Here are the best iPad deals right now

    Here are the best smart locks you can buy right now

    Biomass Ultima Micro: A Smart Innovation That Solves a Big Problem

    What is an ‘AI prompt engineer’ and does every company need one?

    Recycled coffee grounds can be used to make stronger concrete

  • Business
  • Space
  • Videos
  • More
    • Mobile
    • Windows
    • Energy
    • Security
    • Health
    • Entertainment
No Result
View All Result
Best Technologies
No Result
View All Result
Home Spotlight

Scams Are Ruining Pakistan’s Digital Economy

by News Room
March 15, 2023
in Spotlight
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

In 2020, over 100,000 people in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were robbed of 5.6 billion rupees ($19 million), according to news reports. Scam victims were promised high profits—nearly 13 percent—on investments by a Peshawar-based online investment company, only to have them disappear without a trace in November that year.

Tariq, the tech founder, says that she thinks the rise in scams is down to a combination of economic stress and the fact that there’s rarely any recourse for victims. About a month ago, Tariq heard about yet another scam: menacing loan sharks prying on the unsuspecting working-class women borrowing money to make ends meet.

“These women who got scammed knew what the risk was. They probably knew they were getting ripped off, but there’s really no other avenue available,” she said. “And they were not taking loans for frivolous reasons or to buy clothes or whatever. They were probably taking them because someone in their house is sick. So it’s that desperation, that exploitation, that is absolutely booming right now. We are also seeing it in the startup ecosystem, where startups are getting bad terms by pretend investors.”

And yet, Tariq says, no one is banking on law enforcement to step in. “I don’t think the common person, even for a minute, considers going to court,” she says. “And I think that’s what scammers are banking on, too. They know no one is going to take them to court.”

The ZipTech scandal might have some kind of resolution, however.

One member of the Pakistani PC Gamers group, Khizer Ali Khan, happens to be a lawyer. After reading accounts from angry ZipTech customers in April, Khan got in touch with a barrister friend, Khaleeq Zaman, and suggested that they start legal action. They offered to take the case pro bono, and within a day, more than 150 people had reached out for help. “People were calling me a savior,” Khan says. “It was overwhelming.”

On May 17, they sent Zippy a legal notice—to his two shops in Karachi, his villa in the city’s Bahria Town neighborhood, and his other residence in Sukkur, 230 miles from the city. All the notices were sent back. “We discovered that he had fled,” Zaman says. “The shops he had opened were closed. And the residential addresses sent back the legal notices, too, saying he no longer lived there.”

Source: Wired

Tags: crime

Related Posts

Spotlight

Beyond Short-Term Fixes: How Themis Ecosystem Brings Long-Term Green Solutions

December 5, 2024
Spotlight

A look inside both the Legion Go and Steam Deck OLED

November 23, 2023
Spotlight

Construction robot builds massive stone walls on its own

November 23, 2023
Spotlight

Receive an alert when one of your contacts is about to have a special day

November 23, 2023
Spotlight

Here are the best iPad deals right now

November 23, 2023
Spotlight

Here are the best smart locks you can buy right now

November 23, 2023

Trending Now

Plugin Install : Popular Post Widget need JNews - View Counter to be installed

Latest News

Mobile

The Nothing Phone (3) and Headphone (1) are now widely available in most regions

July 16, 2025
Tech

Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen

July 16, 2025
Mobile

You won't believe what the Atari 2600 from 1977 did to ChatGPT, and Copilot while scaring Gemini

July 16, 2025
Entertainment

To make Ironheart feel tactile, the show’s creative team had to get on the same page

July 15, 2025
Tech

ICEBlock isn’t ‘completely anonymous’

July 15, 2025
Security

I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

July 15, 2025
Best Technologies

Best Technologies™ is an online tech news portal. It started as an honest effort to provide unbiased and well-suited information on the latest and trending tech news.

Sections

  • Business
  • Energy
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Mobile
  • News
  • Security
  • Space
  • Spotlight
  • Tech
  • Windows

Browse by Topic

AI amazon amazon prime day android Apple apps artificial intelligence buying guides cars deals Donald Trump elon musk Entertainment gadgets gaming google health household laptops Meta microsoft mobile news Nintendo OpenAI phones policy politics Prime Day privacy quantum computing review reviews Roundup Samsung science security shopping smart home smartphones social media space streaming Tech Wearable

Recent Posts

  • The Nothing Phone (3) and Headphone (1) are now widely available in most regions
  • Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen
  • You won't believe what the Atari 2600 from 1977 did to ChatGPT, and Copilot while scaring Gemini
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Contact

© 2022 All Right Reserved - Blue Planet Global Media Network

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Tech
  • Spotlight
  • Business
  • Space
  • Videos
  • More
    • Mobile
    • Windows
    • Energy
    • Security
    • Health
    • Entertainment

© 2022 All Right Reserved - Blue Planet Global Media Network

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.