Claim: Pakistani-American business magnate Shahid Khan has announced a Ramzan “cash giveaway” worth PKR 20,000 to every Pakistani citizen.
Fact: Khan has announced no such giveaway, he confirmed to Soch Fact Check. A link included in the viral message leads to a suspicious website, indicating that it’s most likely a scam.
On 23 February 2026, Soch Fact Check received a WhatsApp message, announcing a Ramzan “cash giveaway” worth PKR 20,000 allegedly being awarded by Pakistani-American billionaire business magnate Shahid Khan to each citizen.
The WhatsApp message reads as follows:
“In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan,The Pakistani-American billionaire businessman Shahid Khan is awarding ₨20,000 cash support to each Pakistani.
“HOW TO GET IT NOW? Visit the link below and you will receive ₨20,000 instantly. i just Received mine
“Click Here👇
ramadan-package.gettlk.online”
A Pakistani immigrant, Khan owns auto parts company Flex-N-Gate, the National Football League’s (NFL) Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, according to his Forbes profile, which added that his real-time net worth as of 23 February 2026 is $15.3 billion.
Soch Fact Check has investigated and debunked various different types of scams in the past as well.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reached out to Khan via Facebook to inquire if the message was authentic and whether he had announced such a giveaway. He said, “This is not from me.”
Scam detectors
Additionally, we ran two versions of the URL — “ramadan-package.gettlk.online” and “https://ramadan-package.gettlk.online” — through multiple detection tools, such as ScamAdviser, Fraud Detector, Pulsedive, Scam Detector, Norton’s AI-powered Genie, Sucuri SiteCheck, and F‑Secure Link Checker, as well as Uniform Resource Locator (URL) checker URLert.
According to ScamAdviser, which gave one rating for both the URLs, the website is “likely safe” with a trust score of 69 out of 100.
Fraud Detector said the result for both URLs was “negative”, labelling it “a fraudulent website or has been reported negatively by others”.
Pulsedive said the website shows “medium risk” and “does not resolve to an IP [Internet Protocol]”.
Scam Detector — which evaluates “53 decisive factors to expose high-risk activity” — also provided one rating for both the URLs. It said the website was “suspicious”, “unsafe”, and “doubtful”, with a low trust score of 20.8 out of 100. It added, “The website appears to be a server index page with no specific content or services provided.”
Norton’s AI-powered Genie said the URLs lead to “a phishing website”
According to Sucuri SiteCheck, the scan “failed” as a “host [was] not found”. The site “is not blacklisted” but shows “medium security risk”.
F‑Secure Link Checker warned against opening the website as it “exposes you to risks like losing money, ID theft, malware infection, and more”. For the first URL, it added that the threat could be more significant as it “doesn’t start with https [and thus] lacks essential encryption”.
According to URLert, the first link is “suspicious”, with one medium and one low severity finding detected. The detector said, “It is a newly registered domain with no proof of legitimate intent, which is a common characteristic of malicious campaigns. Additionally, the domain utilizes a high-risk TLD, further increasing its suspicious nature.”
The second link is also “suspicious”, URLert said. “It is a newly registered domain (232 days old) with no proof of benign intent, which is a strong indicator for potential malicious activity. Additionally, the domain utilizes a high-risk TLD (.online) commonly associated with spam or malware,” it noted.
When marked “high-risk” or suspicious, the TLD, or Top-Level Domain, can be used to facilitate malicious activities, such as data exfiltration, phishing, command-and-control (C2) operations, and malware distribution, according to GoSecure, a professional security and threat detection service.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the viral message is likely a scam.
Virality
The message Soch Fact Check received on WhatsApp is marked “Forwarded many times,” which means it was shared through a chain of five or more chats.
We also found the claim shared here, here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook.
It was also posted here and here on X (formerly Twitter).
Conclusion: Pakistani-American business magnate Shahid Khan has announced no such giveaway, he confirmed to Soch Fact Check. A link included in the viral message leads to a suspicious website, indicating that it’s most likely a scam.
Background image in cover photo: Shahid Khan
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