Ahmed Mukhtar Naqshbandi
ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Income Support programme has advised the beneficiaries not to consider any message regarding payment of the Benazir Kafalat programme except from the official number; 8171.
While issuing an alert for the beneficiaries, the BISP warned them to beware of scammers and fraudulent adding, “All the payment messages from BISP are sent from 8171 only while the messages received other than this number will be fake”.
BISP takes legal action in support with FIA, PTA
BISP in support with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is also taking legal action against those involved in sending fake messages to the beneficiaries.
The BISP informed that all the messages being circulated on social media regarding registration of BISP programmes are fake and BISP has no connection with all these messages and videos.
The registration of BISP is only carried out through Benazir National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) and designated registration centers without any charges. For further information about the programmes, the beneficiaries may contact the helpline 0800-26477. — APP
