The fall of the fraud gang on bank customers in Egypt

The General Department for Combating Public Funds Crimes at the Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed the details of the arrest of those accused of defrauding some bank customers, seizing their electronic payment card data and seizing their money by receiving phone calls from some people and deluding them that they are customer service employees in banks or representatives of some Official authorities and winning prizes and financial grants, enabling them to seize their electronic payment card data and use it to make purchases on e-shopping sites, as well as requesting deposits of money on some electronic wallets registered with mobile phone numbers belonging to other people.

The Egyptian Ministry of Interior said in a statement that after codifying the procedures in coordination with the sectors of National Security, Public Security, Communications and Information Technology Systems, and the Minya Security Directorate, two people with criminal information residing in the Adwa police station in Minya were targeted, among those responsible for that criminal activity, and they were arrested and in possession of 2 A mobile phone and 3 screens, all of which are the proceeds of their criminal activity, and by examining the two seized phones, it was found that they contain many electronic payment card data seized from some victims, electronic shopping applications, emails with fake names used in commercial transactions on shopping sites, and text messages that the accused send to the victims.

The ministry added that it was possible to infer 15 people from the victims, and by asking them, they reported that they were subjected to fraud and fraud by the two accused, and the seizure of sums of money from them amounting to 700 thousand pounds, and by confronting the two accused, they admitted to engaging in their criminal activity as indicated, and legal measures were taken towards them and the prosecution took over Egyptian public investigation.

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