What Pausier can help with
Pausier can help you pause, review pressure signs, avoid risky actions, and verify through official or trusted routes before acting.
Country overview
Pakistan
Local scam-pressure notes, official support routes where verified, reviewed alerts, and local stories are shown only where Pausier has existing reviewed data.
What Pausier cannot do
Pausier cannot confirm whether something is safe or unsafe, recover money, contact authorities, replace official reporting, or guarantee an outcome.
Local context
Support routes and alerts are shown where they exist in Pausier's reviewed data. If review is missing, Pausier shows fallback guidance instead of inventing links.
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Support in Pakistan
Use reviewed routes to verify independently, report suspicious contact, and protect accounts or payments.
Reviewed support is partially available for this country.
Coverage note: Pakistan FIA cybercrime reporting and complaint contacts are verified. Wider regulator and consumer routes remain incomplete.
Report fraud/cybercrime
Report cybercrime through the FIA complaint portal
The Federal Investigation Agency complaint portal accepts cybercrime and other public complaints.
Review FIA cybercrime complaint and office contacts
The FIA public complaint page lists cybercrime regional offices and complaint contacts.
FIA cybercrime helpline
Use the FIA cybercrime helpline for cybercrime-related complaints and escalation.
Official short code: 1991
Keep evidence
Keep screenshots, message text, timestamps, sender details, payment references, and any case numbers.
Use official channels you already trust, such as the organisation's official website, app, card number, or local authority website.
Do not use links, numbers, or contact details supplied by the suspicious message or caller.
If money may be at risk, contact your bank or payment provider first using an official route you already trust.
If there is immediate danger, use local emergency services or a trusted local authority route.
Official alerts
Official alerts for Pakistan
Official alert coverage is still expanding for this country. Pausier keeps the area visible so users can see the limit clearly instead of assuming alerts exist everywhere.
Local stories where available
Reviewed stories for Pakistan
Qaiser Mehmood targeted by a fake bank app activation call
The pause point was before acting on the request while this pressure was present: Fake bank authority; “activate app” instruction; spoofed/resembling helpline number; rapid multiple transactions.
Source: Press Information Department / President SecretariatBrigadier Muhammad Arif Shaikh pressured to share bank cred...
The pause point was before acting on the request while this pressure was present: Fake bank/technical authority; credentials pressure; “fix your account” pretext.
Source: Press Information Department / President SecretariatHaseeb targeted by a fake bank PIN call before an exam
The pause point was before acting on the request while this pressure was present: Fake bank employee; vulnerable timing before exam; account/PIN pressure.
Source: Dawn / EOSQammar Shahzad pressured by a fake police call about his son
The pause point was before acting on the request while this pressure was present: Fake police authority; family emergency; threat of criminal case; two-hour payment pressure.
Source: DawnMumal Bilal targeted by a fake Amazon work-from-home scheme
The pause point was before acting on the request while this pressure was present: Fake job/platform; fake profits; release-fee/refund trap; investment-pressure escalation.
Source: Geo NewsBushra Tasnim pressured by fake bank OTP prompts
The pause point was before acting on the request while this pressure was present: Fake bank authority; repeated OTP/code prompts; caller said call was recorded and urgent verification was needed or account would be blocked.
Source: Geo NewsSource list
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