Pakistan’s progress towards digitization brings with it new avenues for online scammers who use sophisticated technologies and methods for fraud. High-profile political figures such as Dr Nikhat Shakeel, a parliamentary secretary for the Ministry of Science and Technology, are not immune to these rapidly evolving mediums of online scams. After being swindled out of Rs 1.5 million due to an online scam that involved repeated calls by individuals claiming to hold urgent official documents from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), Dr Nikhat found her phone device compromised, leading to severe financial losses. What stands out in her narrative is the weakness and regulatory holes festering in Pakistan’s cybersecurity infrastructure. NCCIA’s online complaint cell has been non-functional since the beginning of October, and physical complaints create major hurdles owing to jurisdictional constraints, leading to very long time lags before victims can secure their digital devices.