ISLAMABAD – Major general Asif Ghafoor, the Director Generalof Inter-Services Public Relations, has warned the social media users thatthey should not be deceived by hackers misusing his name through maliciousemails.

In a series of tweets made through his verified personal account, the ISPRchief revealed that the hackers were sending e-mails to users asking themto fill forms and enter their credentials, trying to defraud people using adomain name similar to the ISPR.

‘It is clarified that this is a phishing email which has no link to ISPR’said the official, asking people not to open any such link with thesubject ‘Appointment with Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor’.

The Pak Army spokesman continued that by opening the link in the scam mail,once can compromise the security of his/her computer or handheld device.

He also shared the official domain name of military’s media and expressedthat there was no other domain name from which any official e-mail isforwarded.

A snapshot of the junk mail was also shared by Major Asif Ghafoor.