Abu Dhabi Police warned of six modern methods used by telephone fraud professionals to lure the victim and seize his money, which is to impersonate an employee of a company that provides communication services and inform the victim of winning a lottery prize, or deluding him by winning his mobile number during a random drawing of a financial prize, or nominating his number to win a precious prize, and that For the owners of distinguished numbers, take advantage of the official events of the state and major companies, and send a copy of a fake prize.

She revealed that the crime of "phone fraud" is considered the most developed according to the statistics of criminal communications during the past three years, calling on community members not to interact with strange numbers and the need to maintain the confidentiality of personal financial information, and to inform the security services immediately upon receiving a phone fraud call.

She drew attention to the phrase "Congratulations, I won a financial prize", as it is the beginning of a fraud, in which the fraudsters delude the victim with financial rewards, and lure him by transferring the money.

Abu Dhabi Police warned against giving any information or personal or banking data to anyone over the phone, prolonging the conversation with the fraudulent caller, because buying time is one of the ways to defraud them, giving the Emirates ID number to them as they are bound in most transactions and accounts, and sending any electronic number or code from Your device is calling you over the phone.

She cautioned that telecommunications companies or banks never request personal data from their customers over the phone or inform them of their profit in cash prizes, and in the event that they offer free offers or incentives to their customers, they will be through approved channels of communication, such as official newspapers or TV channels.

She emphasized that telephone fraud crimes are among the most prominent disturbing security phenomena that negatively affect members of society, as they are victims of telephone fraud specialists through their use of various and studied fraud methods to seize their money and companies.

The police stressed the need to beware of fraudsters who use tempting methods to fraud via the phone or the Internet, calling for the necessity not to be led by hoaxes whose owners are deluding users by winning valuable prizes without basic reference to them, as several reports indicated that they are fake prizes aimed at either seizing the financial balance Or getting into a "complicated network" of fraudulent communications and phone messages that end up draining sums of money.

She pointed out that the fraudulent methods implemented by fraudsters include sending text messages or through the social networking application "WhatsApp" for the purpose of fraud by banning the bank's ATM card, for not doing the update and asking him to communicate with a phone number to do the update correctly, which allows the fraudsters to know its data and take away His money.

Fraudulent gang

The watchful eye of Abu Dhabi police contributed to the rapid arrest of the head of a phone fraud gang before he escaped outside the country, as it managed this month to arrest two gangs of 28 Asians, who use telephone fraud as a means to catch their victims and seize their savings and bank assets in fraudulent ways.

The rapid interrogation of the defendants by the elements of criminal investigation and investigation contributed to the arrest of one of the heads of the two gangs within three hours, who was trying to escape through one of the state's airports.

• Abu Dhabi Police warned against giving any personal or banking data to anyone over the phone.