Scammers try to blackmail girls by posting fake jobs
Legal Adviser, Dr. Youssef Al-Sharif, warned individuals against believing anonymous and fake advertisements that spread on some internet and social media sites, and promote the purchase of airline tickets and hotel reservations at discounted prices, as well as those that promote fake discounts on goods or offer jobs with large sums of money, as they target fraud, pointing out The Rumors and Cybercrime Law tightened the penalty for managing such websites with one year in prison and a fine of up to half a million dirhams.
Al-Sharif, as part of the episodes broadcast by "Emirates Today" on its platforms to raise awareness of cybercrime, and the newly issued laws, called on individuals to take caution and caution in their electronic financial transactions, and not to believe advertisements that are spread on suspicious sites, or to obey any advertisement whose purpose may be fraud.
Al-Sharif pointed to the occurrence of several electronic crimes due to the failure of individuals to take caution, including an incident that occurred in an Arab country, related to the issue of electronic employment, as fraudsters launched a platform to request the employment of girls to work as secretaries and administrators in a contracting company, and during a short period, they contacted many girls, Some of them were blackmailed, after they were seduced and their pictures taken.
He added that some fraudsters advertise certain goods at discounted prices, and the victim pays the price electronically and does not get his goods, or the goods are fraudulent or counterfeit, and the fraudsters also use this method through travel ticket booking sites or hotel reservation sites, which promote their prices as being lower than the prices of companies Flight approved, the victim discovers that he has been the victim of a scam.
He pointed out that the legislator tightened the penalty for such crimes by imprisonment for a period of no less than one year and a fine of no less than 300,000 dirhams and not more than 500,000 dirhams, or one of these two penalties, whoever manages, creates or uses a website or account on an information network that aims to commit Or facilitating a crime that is legally punishable, according to the provisions of Article (17) of the Rumors Law, which is registered under the title of crimes committed by the person responsible for the website or the electronic account.
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