> Shayan Ali, an alleged kabootar scammer from Mian Channu, told Rest of World that he himself had once been scammed in the process of orchestrating a scam. In November 2022, he hired a virtual assistant to operate one of his Amazon accounts. “I paid him 50,000 Pakistani rupees [$221], he said he would help me with creating fake tracking IDs, and then he disappeared,” Shayan Ali said. He was livid, and posted his scammer’s name and location all over an Amazon drop-shipping Facebook group, with cautionary comments.

    > One user pointed out the irony of what had happened. “Now that you aren’t able to orchestrate drop-shipping scams, you are being scammed yourself,” the person wrote. “Shame on the people of Pakistan who are now scamming each other.”