They hacked an email and deceived the victim with fake documents

Imprisonment and a fine of 400,000 dirhams for those accused of electronic fraud

The Dubai Criminal Court has ruled a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 442,000 dirhams against defendants working for a gang that professionally conducts electronic fraud and practices its activities from outside the country. Resides in another country », as they are the law firm located in Dubai, and they sent him forged documents that included a contract of agency and forged receipts, and they took more than 300,000 dirhams from him.

The first victim (a lawyer) said that the businessman asked his office to follow up on some of his civil cases in the country, as he lived abroad and kept communicating via e-mail, but stopped working with him because the second victim had stopped communicating with him since August. 2018.

He added that he later discovered that fraudsters penetrated the e-mail, sent messages via another e-mail similar to his e-mail to the businessman, and asked him to communicate via the “Skype” application, and they sent him an agency contract and fraudulent fee receipts, and asked him for sums of money, and took from him about 300 One thousand dirhams, until the victim became suspicious of the matter and came to Dubai and confirmed his exposure to fraud.

For his part, a Dubai police witness said that the actions were taken and the accused were arrested upon receiving the report from the victim, pointing out that a taxi driver who was in charge of transporting the accused was first arrested. He stated that he did not know anything about the details of what was happening, and he drove them to a commercial center. Then they asked him to receive a sum of money and hand it over to them, so he was considered a witness in the case, after he had participated in preparing an ambush for the accused and arresting them.

The Dubai Police expert revealed that the defendants present in this case are limited to receiving money, washing it by purchasing gold and spare parts and sending them to their African hometown, while a gang outside the country undertakes the task of hacking the victims' e-mail and communicating with them to send sums of money, then the two arrested accused take over the task Receive it and forward it.

The first accused admitted in the police report that a friend of his in his country asked him to receive a large sum of money as part of a commercial operation, pointing out that he undertook this task for the benefit of his friend several times in return for a commission for each operation he carried out.

- The two defendants work for the benefit of a gang practicing electronic fraud outside the country.

Follow our latest local and sports news, and the latest political and economic developments via Google news