«Greed» password in most frauds. According to several court and police cases, fraudsters have a great ability to read the psychosocialities of their victims, enabling them to lure them and seize opportunities to seize their money.
Assistant General Commander of the Dubai Police for Criminal Investigation Affairs, Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, told Emirates Today that "the police in the state do not limit the awareness of the community to the methods of fraudsters, but some are still victims of fraudulent, , Referring to phone fraud, which gangs use to impress people after being inspired to win grand prizes, even though they do not participate in contests, or engage in activities of the kind that include an announcement of an award or reward.
"The latest methods of this kind of fraud, fraudsters claim to be police or government and quasi-government departments, and the victim's claim to give their bank statements confidential, or transfer funds.
"There are victims of a great deal of education, such as an educated wife who, without her husband's knowledge, transferred 50,000 dirhams to an unknown account number, a few minutes after the caller convinced her to win a grand prize. Another woman, also an educated woman, revealed to an anonymous caller her credit card numbers, after he had become a police officer, to discover that she had withdrawn her balance.
"The call in the previous two cases makes no sense. Why does a policeman call from a mobile phone, when did the police announce prizes or bonuses in this way, and was the victim herself involved in a competition, reward program, or service that justified her winning a grand prize?" .
"Telephone fraudsters are trying to develop their methods by acting in an institutionalized way, such as turning the victim from one person to another, to establish their own lies, but the entire process is naive and illogical. The police try to control these fraudsters, but there is no guarantee So that members of the community must be aware and alert, and think carefully before responding to the callers ».
"The money does not come from the air, and whoever thinks in this way has to take responsibility for his decision. It is not logical for a person to transfer money or disclose the confidential data of his credit card to a person related to him as a follower of a government hospital. That the same person had not visited this hospital before ».
Anyone who receives similar contacts from unknowns must immediately contact Dubai Police through its various channels, or ignore the caller as the weakest of faith, because responding to him means a waste of money.
Al-Mansouri asserts that the fraudsters manipulate the victims psychologically by arousing the instinct of greed inside them, and they respond to them, including a woman who turned 3000 dirhams into a gang that convinced her to win 500,000 dirhams.
Abu Dhabi Police, in turn, monitored an update of these fraudulent methods by telephone, pointing out that it has become the name of local and international institutions and events.
The director of the Directorate of Investigations and Criminal Investigations, Brigadier General Omran Ahmed Al Mazrouei, warned of the response to communications aimed at people at random, pointing out that some deceptive messages contain contents, such as updating or baning bank cards, in order to attract victims.
Emirates NBD Director of Fraud Control, Hani Mokbel, warned of fraudulent tactics. In an interview with Dubai Police, Al-Emarat Al-Youm said that the most recent method of "telephone fraud" is to call the caller to be a police officer in order to subjugate the victim and convince him to disclose his credit card or bank card In general, including the secret code or the triple security code on the back of the card, which is usually used in purchases, pointing out that «some fall naively in the trap».
He added: "There are certain aspects that must be noticed by the members of the community, the most important of which is that the official authorities do not communicate with a person by a mobile phone to inform him of winning a major prize, such that the fraudster always insists on keeping the line open with the target person, and he tries to convince him, He calls back if he closes the line, fearing that he will reveal his order, and the other party will call the police. "
He said the traditional approach was to contact the person and persuade him to win a grand prize. He then demanded that he transfer a phone balance that the fraudsters would later sell, but after intensive awareness campaigns, the criminals took their tactics.
He explained that the most recent methods of fraudulent claim that it belongs to a public institution, such as police specifically, to cast some of the awe and respect in the same recipient, and then exhausted financially if you respond to them.
Trick the slide numbers
Major General Khalil Ibrahim al-Mansouri said that the fraudsters were initially content to tempt the victims with big prizes. They then ask them to transfer the balance of their phone to be sold later, but they are asking for bank card data for their victims, breaking through their accounts and using them to buy products online.
He explained that the fraudsters love their deception in several ways, they convince the victim that he is a real winner, by telling him the numbers on the slide of the phone he uses.
When the victim examines the slide, he discovers that the figures you mentioned are actually there, and he is happy to do something, unaware that the numbers are constant in all segments.
Al-Mansouri added that the second stage of the trick is to turn the victim into a sound system similar to the one used by banks. He asks him for confidential data, such as the credit card number and the security triangular code on the back of the card. With the card's card number, pointing out that an Arab person had withdrawn more than 10,000 dirhams from his card in the same way, as a result of giving his confidential data to fraudsters.
The fraudsters manipulate the victims psychologically, by arousing the instinct of greed within them.