We managed to seize 300 thousand dirhams

Two persons accused of hacking into a law firm's email correspondence

The Dubai Criminal Court ruled a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 442,000 dirhams, against two people of African nationality, and acquitted a third in the same case, after it was proven that they worked for the benefit of a gang that proffers electronic fraud and practices its activities from outside the country.

The two defendants - along with others on the run - were able to hack a lawyer’s e-mail, create another mail in his name, and communicate with his client, a businessman residing in another country, as they are the law firm located in Dubai.

They sent him forged documents, including an agency contract and receipts, and seized more than 300,000 dirhams from him, with which they bought gold and spare parts.

The first victim, the lawyer, said that his client (the second victim) asked his office to follow up on some of his civil cases in the UAE, as he lives in another country.

He added that he used to communicate with his client via e-mail, until the other stopped working and stopped communicating with him since August 2018. He continued that he discovered, later, that fraudsters penetrated the e-mail and sent messages via another e-mail, similar to his e-mail, to a man They asked him to communicate with them through the “Skype” application. Then they sent him an agency contract and fraudulent fee receipts, and demanded sums of money from them, from which they took about 300 thousand dirhams, until the victim became suspicious of the matter, so he came to Dubai and made sure that he was being defrauded.

A Dubai police witness confirmed the arrest of the two suspects, upon receiving the report from the victim, pointing out to the first arrest of a taxi driver handling the accused, as he stated that he did not know anything about the details of what was happening, and that he drove them to a commercial center, where they asked him to receive a sum of money. He was handed over to them, and he was considered a witness in the case, after he participated in preparing an ambush for the accused and arresting them.

A Dubai police expert revealed that the task of the defendants in this case is limited to receiving money and laundering it by purchasing gold and spare parts and sending them to their countries, while a gang outside the country is in charge of penetrating the victims' e-mail and seizing money from them fraudulently.

The accused here are in charge of receiving it and sending it back to their country.

One of the arrested defendants said in the police evidence report that a friend of his in their country asked him to receive a large sum of money, as part of a commercial operation, pointing out that he carried out the task several times, in return for a commission for each operation he performed.

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