Two Pakistanis added to FBI's Cyber Most Wanted list

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has added two Pakistanis, Farhanul Arshad and Noor Azizuddin, in Cyber's Most Wanted List, with 50,000 dollars rewards offered for each.

According to the FBI website, Arshad, 40, and Azizuddin, 50, are wanted for their alleged involvement in an international telecommunication scheme.

The scheme defrauded unsuspecting individuals, companies, and government entities, to include large telecom companies, in both the United States and abroad.

According to the Express Tribune, the suspects, who hail from Karachi, had between November of 2008 and April of 2012, compromised computer systems and conducted a scheme which ultimately defrauded the victims of amounts in excess of 50 million dollars.

The international scheme involved members of a criminal organisation that extended into Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Spain, Singapore, Italy, and Malaysia among other nations, the report added.