Two fraudsters soliciting a woman with a Facebook ad

The Dubai Criminal Court has started the trial of Asians who lured a woman of the same nationality, through a commercial advertisement that we published on the social networking site "Facebook", about an apartment for rent and defrauded it with forged official pictures that included a forged lease contract attributed to the Ejari system of the Land Department, and two receipts. Counterfeiters, and they took 7250 dirhams from them before they disappeared.

And the victim stated in the Public Prosecution's investigations that she was looking for an apartment over the phone on the social networking site "Facebook", and saw an advertisement for an apartment in Al-Butina area, so she called the number listed in the advertisement, and agreed with him on a date, and met the two defendants, who escorted her to the apartment, then They told him that he had to pay 250 dirhams for the rental fee if she liked the apartment, and gave it three days for the contracting provider of 7,000 dirhams.

She said that she met one of them already on the scheduled date and handed him the amount, and she got the lease contract and two receipts from him, and when she decided to move to the apartment and called them, she was surprised that they completely disappeared, and they stopped answering her, so she went to the place and discovered that she had fallen victim to fraud.

For his part, the first accused in the case admitted that his partner in the crime, the second accused, presented him with a plan to lure those wishing to rent apartments and defraud them, which is to deceive the building guard in the Al-Muteena area and convince him of their desire to see the apartment, then they photographed it and displayed an advertisement for renting it on Facebook. Claiming that they belong to a real estate office

The accused said that their plan had indeed succeeded and they hunted the victim, then accompanied her to the apartment, for inspection, and the matter did not raise the suspicions of the building guard who thought that she was the wife of one of the two men, and the woman expressed her desire to rent the apartment, so they informed her that she must pay the down payment of the contract and a brokerage, so she agreed and handed them the amount. In exchange for a forged lease contract, they made it in addition to two forged receipts belonging to a real estate company that had no knowledge of their name being exploited in this crime.

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