Sharjah Police arrest a gang formation and thwart attempts to bank fraud

The Investigation and Investigation Services of the Eastern Region Police Department arrested members of a gang consisting of (7) persons of Asian nationality, who defrauded and defrauded a large group of bank clients in the country, by making contacts with clients and deluding them to update accounts, provided information, including The numbers of those accounts, to be used later to seize victims' funds.

The Director of the Eastern Region Police Department, Colonel Ali Al-Kai Al-Hamoudi, affirmed the continuation of efforts to address this type of crime and gang entrapment, which uses telephone swindles as a means to seize victims' money illegally, calling on bank account holders not to respond to calls received by them from people invited They are bank employees and do not give any information about their bank accounts or personal data so that they are not subject to illegal exploitation, praising the efforts of the field work teams in being able to control the gang members in less than 12 hours, and protect others from falling victims of this gang.

In detail, Lieutenant Colonel Saeed Khalfan Al Naqbi, Head of the Criminal Investigation Department at the Eastern District Police Department, said that a report was received by the Eastern Region Police Department in Khorfakkan, stating that a woman had been defrauded and defrauded, by an unknown person claiming to be an employee of the bank she deals with, and he updates clients' data Where a sum of (32) thousand dirhams was seized.

Accordingly, a research and investigation team was formed to follow up the progress of the case, and it was found that the gang formation uses the method of disguise, as they intend to mislead the victim and delude them to stop the account from working in the absence of updating it, and when the money is seized, they get rid of the calling cards, so that they are not reached, However, the experience of the investigation men in dealing with various events led to them, and their plans failed, and they were arrested one by one after preparing a number of court ambushes, according to which it led to the arrest of all gang members, in cooperation with the Dubai Police General Command in less than 12 hours from Report time.

Lieutenant Colonel Al Naqbi stated that, through the investigation with the perpetrators, it was found that they had robbed a large number of bank clients, and seized large sums of money with these tricks, which the state authorities have long warned members of the community about, by not paying attention to such allegations, and making sure of the source of communication, from During returning to the bank, and confirming the origin of the transaction, so that they do not fall prey to the hands of the trolls.

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