I launched an awareness campaign and blocked 800 numbers
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Fraudsters confuse their victims with lies.
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Yesterday, Dubai Police launched a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of electronic fraud under the title "Do not be a victim of phishing." .
Colonel Saeed Al Hajri, Director of the Cyber Crime Control Department at the General Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation, said in a press conference held remotely yesterday, that “the teams specialized in combating this type of crime are doing their utmost in controlling and deterrence, but public awareness remains a major factor. In protection from these criminals ».
He added that the campaign, organized by Dubai Police in cooperation with the Central Bank, the Communications Regulatory Authority, and the Dubai Electronic Security Center, aims to educate community members not to respond to fraudsters who communicate with them by phone, impersonating them as bank employees or government officials, and requesting confidential bank data such as card numbers.
He pointed out that fraudsters try to act in a kind of professionalism, asking for ID data from the victim, then sending him a text message from another phone that contains one password, to convince him that they really belong to a bank or government institution, and then they get money and confidential data from him by deception.
For his part, Director of Anti-Fraud at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, Muhammad Al Balushi, said that “fraudsters confuse their victims with lies such as closing their accounts, in order to push them to reveal their confidential data.” They fabricate these lies by sending text messages from different numbers that contain false passwords. Their target.
In addition, Colonel Omar bin Hammad, Director of the Economic Crime Control Department at the General Department of Criminal Investigations at Dubai Police said, “About 95% of the accused are from Asian countries, and a large number of them have been arrested, but members of the public remain responsible for protecting their personal data by not Responding to any of these crimes ».
He pointed out that according to Article 33 of the Federal Penal Code, the penalty for fraud amounts to two years in prison and a fine of 20 thousand dirhams.
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