The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced three African fraudsters to one year in prison, plus a fine of 200,000 dirhams and deportation after convicting them of defrauding an Arab trader and seizing more than $ 170,000 after luring him on Facebook and luring him to win. $ 27 million grand prize.
According to a Dubai police witness, a report was received by the Department of Combating Economic Crimes at the beginning of February, from an Arab person saying that he was browsing Facebook, when he was contacted by a person named Peter, who told him that he won a prize of approximately $ 27 million from A UAE Islamic bank asked him to send a copy of his passport to complete the transfer, then he was told to transfer $ 21,000 for a lawyer, $ 27,000 for administrative expenses, $ 43,000 for sponsorship, and another $ 50,000 for additional fees. And, oddly enough, the victim paid all that money for the prize Z.
The witness added that the gang moved to a second stage of fraud, when he realized the response of the victim, one of the accused asked him to come to the state, and met him in Dubai, and asked him another amount to transfer the prize from the bank to a security company specialized in the transfer of funds.
The next day, the victim met members of the gang who uncovered a black suitcase containing a lot of black paper, the size of the $ 100 paper. Until they wash him the whole amount of money, so he paid them too.
The witness pointed out that one of the defendants called him later, and told him that the last amount was not enough, and asked him an additional $ 160 thousand to buy another amount of liquid, and here the victim realized that he was a victim of fraud, he informed Dubai police who arrested the defendants, but did not Investigations indicate whether or not the money paid was recovered, especially as the defendants denied the charges against them.
• The trader discovered a victim of fraud after being financially depleted.