Dubai Police General Headquarters revealed the arrest of a gang of nine individuals holding African nationality in a process called "fox hunting", specialized in cyber fraud and fraud on a global level, and operates through 81 fake companies in 18 countries around the world, as it has Theft was stolen by accusations of fake jobs, impersonation of others, and the gang made 32 million dirhams of money in more than one bank account.
Dubai police found in the seized electronic devices huge amounts of information about people, companies, bank accounts and credit cards, in addition to documents documenting fraud and fraud details.
It turns out that Dubai Police, by arresting the gang members, thwarted their seizure of 64 million dirhams from 1126 credit cards. They stole their secret numbers beforehand, and they stopped them before they could steal 4 billion dirhams by targeting 800,000 emails.
Dubai Police Commander-in-Chief Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al-Marri said that the seizure of the gang is a new achievement added to the record of Dubai police achievements in enhancing security and safety and preserving people's money, pointing out that Dubai Police pays remarkable attention in addressing various electronic fraud and fraud, especially as the gangs intend to Developing its methods in committing those crimes and exploiting the latest technology in its criminal operations, stressing that the electronic detectives deal with modern technologies with complete professionalism, and intend to qualify an elite of officers and individuals specialized in dealing with artificial intelligence techniques to reduce crime For electronic.
Major General Al-Marri stressed the importance of unifying and intensifying efforts among all the competent authorities to reduce international cybercrime, and to develop new systems to deal with those crimes and address them in record time, by devoting all means, whether scientific, material or administrative to reduce them.
Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansoori, Assistant Commander in Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs described the process of "fox hunting" as qualitative, because of its professionalism in dealing with the gang and the accuracy and accuracy in planning, which contributed to the success of the process par excellence, and prevent the gang from stealing 800 thousand e-mail, And protecting 4 billion dirhams from the possibility of the gang taking advantage of it, praising the tremendous efforts of the work teams to arrest the accused and confront them by harnessing the latest technologies.
In turn, the Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigations and Investigations, Brigadier Jamal Salem Al-Jallaf, said that the events of the case started with security information via the ecrime platform stating that the gang victims through social media have identified people claiming to be wealthy, and that they are ready to be a link in the victims obtaining jobs, stressing that they have formed A research and investigation team to gain access to the identity of the gang members and arrest them as quickly as they pose a danger to people, companies, bank accounts and credit cards.
He explained that the electronic detectives in the General Department of Investigations and Criminal Investigations confirmed the authenticity of the information, as it was found that the victims transferred money to these people in order to complete their recruitment procedures, to discover later that they were exposed to electronic fraud with fake jobs they received via e-mail that actually contained false documents. , Pointing out that the Center for Forensic Analysis and Technical Investigation in Dubai Police is a highly professional affiliate of the electronic accounts that victims deal with, as well as investigating the accounts of social networking sites for gang members.
He continued, "Hours of continuous work led to the suspicion of a group of people present in the state, who seduced the victims with fake jobs, and that their bank accounts, their places of residence, their cars, and the result were monitored. On other websites.