The criminal court in Dubai has started the trial of three defendants present in the interest of a gang that professes electronic fraud and operates from outside the state, as these defendants, along with fugitive others, managed to penetrate the email of a lawyer, created another mail in his name, and contacted his client, a businessman residing in a country Others, as they are a law firm located in Dubai, and they sent forged documents to him that included a contract of agency and forged receipts, and they took more than 300,000 dirhams from them, and bought them gold and spare parts, but they were caught by the Dubai police while trying to seize another 60,000 dirhams from the victim.
The first victim (a lawyer) said that the businessman asked his office to follow up on some of his civil cases in the country, since he lives abroad, and they used to communicate via e-mail, but he stopped working with him because the second victim (businessman) stopped communicating He has been with him since August 2018.
He added that he later discovered that electronic fraudsters had hacked the email, and they sent messages via another email similar to his email to the businessman, and they asked him to communicate through the Skype application, and they sent him a contract of agency and receipts for false fees, and they asked him for money, and took about 300 of them One thousand dirhams, until the businessman suspected the matter and came to Dubai, and confirmed that he was defrauded.
For his part, a witness from Dubai Police said that the defendants were moved and seized immediately after receiving the report from the victims, pointing out that a taxi driver who was responsible for connecting the defendants was arrested first, and he stated that he did not know anything about the details of what was happening, and that he had brought the defendants to a commercial center and then They asked him to receive a money and hand it over to them, so he was considered a witness in the case after he contributed to preparing and arresting the accused.
The Dubai Police expert revealed that the defendants present in this case are limited to receiving money, washing them with gold and spare parts and sending them to their countries in Africa, while a gang located outside the country undertakes the task of penetrating the e-mail of the victims and communicating with them to send money, then the accused will take over The task of receiving and forwarding it.
The first accused admitted in the police inception report that a friend in his country in Africa asked him to receive a large sum of money in the framework of a commercial operation, pointing out that he carried out this task in the interest of his friend several times in exchange for a commission for each operation he carried out.