LAHORE – As People in Punjab and parts of Pakistan are looking for cheap energy sources after recent government announcements, several portals mushroomed over the last year, misleading people with FAKE Registration forms and catchy thumbnails.
In the start, only a few websites were claiming with such fishy activities, before the menace picked pace as clickbait portals asked people to enter their personal information to be part of government-run scheme.
Several portals including “solar-panel-scheme-2024”, “Roshan Gharana Program Registration” and many more are tricking people, using Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s pictures along with punchlines like “Free Solar For Users with 200 Units”.
It also pushed people with the November 10 deadline to register themselves at the portals – an absolute sham, as there is no such deadline or portal being operated by the government.
Fake Solar Scheme Sites in Pakistan
Screengrab of fake website
The government officials also warned people not to enter their details on these sites. Punjab’s “Roshan Gharana Program,” Director cleared the air that there is no registration process underway for scheme, and that these portals are being run by scammers.
As people continued to approach government officials about the scam, it turned that these websites used clickbait for revenue and to collect personal information and then sell it.
