{"id":100568,"date":"2026-02-11T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=100568"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:52:39","slug":"how-to-protect-yourself-from-e-challan-scams-sent-via-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-e-challan-scams-sent-via-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect yourself from e-Challan scams sent via SMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The City Traffic Authorities Kare Street Warning People who live in the city that official <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/karachi-traffic-police-temporarily-waive-challans\/\">e-Challan<\/a> messages exist only to be sent through the 9915 number.<\/p>\n<p>The e-Challan SMS you receive from any other number should make you suspicious because it might be a counterfeit message. You should call 15 without delay to handle all emergency and verification needs.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities provide this statement to the public: &#8220;Your awareness is your protection.&#8221; People should confirm message authenticity while keeping their personal details private and refusing to use unofficial payment methods.<\/p>\n<p>The Safe City e-Challan SMS will always originate from the 9915 number. For all e-Challan-related questions, please contact the emergency number 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The City Traffic Authorities Kare Street Warning People who live in the city that official e-Challan messages exist only to be sent through the 9915 number. The e-Challan SMS you receive from any other number should make you suspicious because it might be a counterfeit message. You should call 15 without delay to handle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":72005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[33270,35314,30338],"class_list":["post-100568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-e-challan","tag-e-challan-scams-sent-via-sms","tag-scam-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100569,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100568\/revisions\/100569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}