Court seeks comments on forged text
A local court sought comments from the director of FIA, Multan, over the plundering of money through forged texts being forwarded on the petitioner's mobile number.
According to a petition filed by Muhammad Sharif Saggu through lawyer Shakir Hussain Sikhani with the Justice of Peace, he had received a text from an unidentified number to submit $500 to receive $2 million from the US.
He said he was urged by the fraudster to distribute 70% of the proposed money among widows and needy people and keep the remaining money with him as an honorarium for serving humanity. He said he was a resident of a local village and surviving as a simple man.
He said the fraudulent donor desired $500 as custom duty from him to clear $2 million before sending the money to his account.
Later, he said when he received the said SMS time and again to secure the foreign currency, he was encouraged to deposit $500 with the given account number registered with a local bank.
He said there were many people who had been duped like him.
The petitioner said that when he tracked down the bank branch, he discovered the address of the forged account number was maintained at the bank’s Faizabad branch, Shamshabad, Murree Road, Rawalpindi, in the name of some individual.
The court called for a report regarding the matter from the director of FIA by September 20 to carry out further investigation.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th, 2022.