Pakistan’s NCCIA dismantles Karachi call centre targeting US nationals
NCCIA Karachi has dismantled an international scam call centre at Business Avenue, Shahrah-e-Faisal, arresting 27 suspects — including alleged owners Ali Siddiqui, Fawad Ahmed and Farooq — accused of impersonating US banks and debt-settlement agencies to defraud foreign nationals.
Karachi: Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has dismantled an international scam call centre in Karachi in a raid that underscored growing enforcement against cross-border voice fraud targeting US nationals.
NCCIA Karachi conducted the operation at Business Avenue on Shahrah-e-Faisal, according to official advisories and contemporaneous Pakistani news reporting.
Twenty-seven suspects were arrested, including three alleged owners of the operation and four Afghan nationals.
Investigators seized laptops, mobile phones and other digital devices for forensic examination under a recovery memo dated 15 September 2026.
Bank statements were also taken into custody, and recovered evidence was sent for forensic testing.
Named Suspects
Multiple outlets citing NCCIA have identified the three alleged owners of the call centre as:
- Ali Siddiqui (also reported as Ali Siddique), alias Medi or Maddy
- Fawad Ahmed (also reported as Fawad Ahmad)
- Farooq
All 27 detainees, including the three alleged owners, management, agents, operational staff and four Afghan nationals, were nominated in the First Information Report.
Full individual names of the remaining suspects have not been released in public reporting.
Authorities are also examining how Afghan nationals were employed at the facility and whether other facilitators remain at large.
Modus Operandi
Preliminary findings indicated the use of spoofing diallers and advanced fraudulent calling techniques.
Suspects allegedly impersonated representatives of US banks and debt-settlement agencies, contacting foreign nationals, with US consumers among the intended victims.
According to investigators, operators worked from prepared scripts designed to pressure victims into transferring money through unauthorised channels.
After obtaining bank-account and payment-card details, the network allegedly used that information to defraud clients.
Sensitive personal data reportedly found on site included Social Security numbers and other identifying information belonging to foreign nationals.
Reporting also described a high-capacity, around-the-clock operation: more than 50 people could work at the premises at one time, with staff spanning management, agents and operational roles.
About NCCIA
The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency is Pakistan’s federal body charged with investigating cybercrime, online fraud and technology-enabled offences.
It operates through regional formations, including NCCIA Karachi, and publishes public advisories on major enforcement actions.
Further information is available at www.nccia.gov.pk and via the agency’s official channels.
The case adds to a wider global pattern in which call-centre fraud rings based in South Asia target overseas victims with bank and debt scams, and in which local cybercrime agencies are increasingly disrupting those networks through coordinated raids and device seizures.