Pakistan’s NCCIA raids Lahore call centre posing as medical billing firm Mediknocx to target Canadians
Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency says it raided an alleged illegal call centre in Lahore that used the medical billing brand Mediknocx as a front to defraud people in Canada. Officers seized 15 laptops, 50 mobile phones and 50 computer systems. No arrest figure has been released.
LAHORE: Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has raided an alleged illegal call centre in Lahore that operated under the name of a medical billing firm, Mediknocx, and targeted victims in Canada.
The agency said on 4 October 2026 that the centre ran fraudulent campaigns while impersonating service providers.
Officers recovered 15 laptops, 50 mobile phones and 50 computer systems.
The NCCIA has not said how many people were detained.
Mediknocx Impersonation
Mediknocx presents itself as a US medical billing company handling coding, insurance claims, payment posting and denial management for healthcare providers.
Founded in 2020, it lists offices in the United States and a workforce in Pakistan, and has advertised night-shift billing jobs in Lahore’s Johar Town and Faisal Town.
The NCCIA has not accused the company itself, It says the call centre used the brand as cover.
Modus operandi
According to the NCCIA, the centre posed as a legitimate medical billing operation.
Callers contacted people in Canada and impersonated service providers.
The agency has not disclosed what victims were offered, how money was taken or how much was lost.
Raid footage shows rows of desktop computers, laptops and piles of keyboards and cables at the site.
Back-to-back raids, and a global scam-hub concern
The raid follows a larger Lahore operation a day earlier.
Sources say the NCCIA detained more than three dozen people at two call centres in Faisal Town and Johar Town, where suspects used dial-up software to cheat foreigners with fake mobile-upgrade offers. Vehicles allegedly bought with crime proceeds were also seized.
Two raids in two days, with different cover stories and foreign victims, add to international concern that Pakistan is emerging as a new scam hub.
Lawyer says workers jailed, masterminds free
Advocate Zaman Ch who is a practicing legal counsel in Lahore says in a social media video that the crackdown punishes low-level workers while shielding the real operators.
He says networks lure unemployed youth with job offers, pull them into money-laundering work and, in some cases, drug coercion, then abandon them when police arrive. Poor workers are arrested and jailed, he says, while wealthy facilitators and masterminds stay free.
He calls this selective enforcement and wants authorities to dismantle the whole network, not just its low-paid staff.