The Director of the Abu Dhabi Police Investigations and Criminal Investigations Directorate, Brigadier Omran Ahmed Al Mazroui, stated that Abu Dhabi Police succeeded in seizing 13 gangs of phone monuments, as the number of defendants reached 142, during the year 2019 to February.
He explained that the defendants had lured their victims through fraud, as they are bank employees, and asked them to update their bank statements, seized their money, or accused them of winning fake prizes, noting that the research and investigation teams were able to return part of the money of the victims who opened notifications as soon as they were exposed to fraud.
He stated that Abu Dhabi Police recently monitored several methods used by fraudsters over the phone to lure their victims and seize their banking data, including contacting the victims through a mobile phone, not landline, and claiming that they won fake prizes, and with large sums of money from well-known institutions, and asking the victim to update his banking data, And providing them with the secret numbers of his credit cards, warning against links to fraudulent websites that mimic government and other institutions.
In addition, the Abu Dhabi Police launched a campaign, "Khebak cautious" in its third edition, with the aim of educating individuals about the dangers of telephone and electronic fraud, which require caution in dealing with them. The director of the criminal security sector, Brigadier Mohammed Suhail Al-Rashdi, confirmed that the campaign addresses the public in four languages (Arabic, English, Urdu and Hindi), and a warning of telephone and electronic fraud, which promotes winning fake prizes in modern and traditional technical methods.
He mentioned that the campaign includes many activities and activities, including community councils, and Friday sermons, with the participation of famous social networking sites, as well as Abu Dhabi police platforms, and various media outlets, distributing awareness brochures, sending text messages, awareness lectures, and others.
He continued that the campaign urges the public to be wary of fraudsters who use tempting methods of phone or internet fraud, pointing to the need to pay attention not to deal with strange numbers, maintain the confidentiality of personal financial information, inform the security services immediately upon receiving a suspicious phone call, and take caution in dealing With contacts and phone messages, and verify their source.
He called on mobile users to not be driven away by the hoaxes that their owners delude in winning valuable prizes, without basic reference to them, as many reports indicated that they are fake prizes, aiming to either seize the financial balance or enter into a "complex network" of communications and phone messages. Deceptive, which ends up draining sums from no real return.
He referred to the fraudulent methods used by fraudsters by sending text messages or "WhatsApp", with the aim of fraud by banning the bank's ATM card, because his data was not updated, and asking him to communicate with a phone number to update in a correct manner, allowing fraudsters to get to know his data and defraud him.
Reporting speed
The deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Department, Lt. Col. Youssef Mohamed Al-Zaabi, said that the rapid reporting of fraud crimes in which the victims occurred and the awareness-raising efforts led to the recovery of large sums of money, indicating that the fraudsters use various tempting methods to catch their victims, by phone or the Internet in general via e-mail.
The Director of the Information and Monitoring Center, Lt. Col. Sultan Abdullah Al-Salami, called for not responding to suspicious phone calls and text messages, stressing the importance of the initiative to report via the Aman service on 8002626.
He urged the need to pay attention when dealing with strange numbers, to maintain the confidentiality of financial and personal information, to inform the security services as soon as receiving a suspicious phone call, to take care in dealing with communications and phone messages, to verify their source, and in cases of fraud inform the nearest police station.
- “Be careful” aims to educate individuals about the dangers of phone and electronic fraud.