A Saudi loses half a million riyals in a minute
A Saudi citizen was subjected to a financial fraud that caused him to lose half a million riyals from his bank account in a local bank.
The newspaper "Makkah" said that the victim gave a caller by phone who claimed to represent the bank in which his account was located, his bank data and the verification code that he received by text message on his phone.
According to the newspaper, the deceived citizen received a call last week from a fixed phone, and when he replied, the caller immediately identified himself as an employee of the bank in which his account was located, and told him that his account needed to be updated to increase security from hacking, and therefore he needed to provide him with the IBAN number and password.
She added that the man gave him what he asked for, then less than a minute later he asked him for the code number sent to his mobile phone, and a few seconds did not pass until a text message arrived to the citizen to transfer all what was in his account, which is an amount of 500,000 riyals to the account of an institution in the name of a woman.
Legal Adviser Abdul Rahman Al Shaiban told Makkah newspaper that the victim has the right to file a lawsuit in the General Court against the account holder transferred to him, even if he is inside Saudi Arabia, requesting an urgent request to prevent the defendant from traveling abroad, in accordance with the provisions of the legal pleadings system and its executive regulations.
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