Abu Dhabi Police reveal the tactics of phone fraud fraudsters

Abu Dhabi Police have uncovered “real fraud” by people who have been victims of deception by fraudsters through communications, phone messages and social media.

She urged the International Financial Fraud Awareness Week, which runs from 17 to 21 November, not to be driven by phone messages and social media that deceive the public with fake financial prizes and not to respond to messages that impersonate financial institutions. To maintain the confidentiality of bank information and credit card data and to inform the security services immediately upon receiving a strange phone call or suspicious message.

She pointed out that many reports revealed ways to fraudsters with fake prizes aimed at either taking the balance of money or enter into a "complex network" of communications and deceptive phone messages, which ends with the depletion of money without real return.

It warned the public of fraudulent methods by fraudsters by sending text messages or through social networking applications WhatsApp for the purpose of fraud by banning the bank's ATM card for not updating and asking them to communicate with a mobile phone number to do the update properly, allowing fraudsters to identify his data and fraud.

She called for cooperation with the police in promoting community awareness to address the monument, stressing keenness to educate the community members about the dangers of this scourge, which requires caution and wisdom in dealing with them.

She said that she has carried out a campaign under the slogan "Be Careful" which included many activities and activities, including community councils and awareness through ATMs and Friday sermon. Awareness and others.

She pointed out that the telephone monument is considered the most statistically developed and the highest rise according to the criminal reports received by the police during the past years, pointing out the importance of cooperation with the main partners to raise awareness of the field and media addressed to the public within the framework of the initiative "unifying programs and awareness campaigns."