ISLAMABAD – The cyber-crime wing of federal investigators has registered acase against an email address that sent a fake threatening email to NewZealand officials, after which the visitors pulled out of the Pakistan tour.
The case was registered on the complaint of Inspector Muhammad Waseem undersection PECA 2016 r/w section 506 109 PPC, 1860.
The FIR stated that “the email was sent to New Zealand Police with theulterior motives to coerce, intimidate, and create fear, panic, insecurityin the government, public, and create a threat to international peace”.
It further added that information from Interpol revealed that the fakeemail account which was registered under the name of Hamza Afridi had senta threatening email to information@police.govt.nz while the subject of theemail was ‘Terror attack coming’.
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Meanwhile, the International Criminal Police Organization, with the help ofGoogle, indicated that the IP used to create the email account was fromSingapore, while the IP of the device, through which the email was sent, isconnected in India.
