Police warn against dealing with anonymous text messages and emails

A fake delivery company trolling its victims with “postal parcels”

The police asked the public not to share their confidential information with anyone.

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Fraudsters have created electronic methods to trap their victims by using the name of a global delivery company, and communicating with their victims via e-mail with a message that includes the arrival of postal parcels. “Pay the delivery fee now and receive your parcel tomorrow.” As soon as the victim clicks on the link and completes the payment procedures, sums of money that sometimes amounted to 1500 dirhams are withdrawn immediately from his bank account.

While the Ras Al Khaimah Police warned against dealing with text messages, electronic communications and anonymous communications, preventing their spread, and communicating directly with the Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation, to report such criminal practices.

Victims of electronic fraud, Muhammad Abu Malik, Saed Al-Faisali, Reham Al-Juri and Bessan Al-Ghazi, told "Emirates Today", that they did not suspect the emails they received from an international delivery company, because in fact they had products that they had booked and purchased from international sites, and they were waiting. Their receipt, which facilitated their fall into the network of electronic fraud.

They added that the messages were documented, bearing the logo of the global delivery company, all its data from the phone and addresses of their international branches, and an overview of the company, its privileges and certificates, confirming that the official website belongs to this global company, pointing out that once they withdraw the money from their bank accounts, the delay in the arrival of their shipments is more A week ago, they contacted the company's customer service in the country whose name was impersonated to find out the reasons for not receiving the shipment, even though they had paid the delivery fee.

And they continued that the surprise was when the company’s employees told them that their payment policies do not depend on the “e-mail” regarding delivery fees, and that the payment is after receiving the product by the delivery representative directly, and that they were subjected to a fraud in the name of their company, and they should have been careful, and communicated with the company To make sure the data is correct, before making any payments.

They indicated that they were victims of an electronic fraud, despite having sufficient experience and knowledge in identifying suspicious and unofficial messages, and ignoring more than once some of the messages they received, whether by phone or e-mail, but the fraudsters succeeded in developing their work by catching a category. Those waiting for postal shipments, which makes it difficult to doubt the process, as the feelings of the victims are manipulated through the phrase “Pay the delivery fee now and receive your package tomorrow.”

They added that they contacted the banks they deal with, reported the fraud they were exposed to, suspended their bank accounts, and changed the password to purchase products online. They also informed their colleagues and relatives through social networking "groups" that they were exposed to an electronic fraud in the name of a global delivery company, They demanded that they not deal with any messages, click on any electronic links, or pay any fees before communicating with the companies they deal with, so as not to fall victim to electronic fraud.

For its part, the Ras Al Khaimah Police warned against dealing with text and electronic messages and anonymous communications, preventing their spread, and communicating directly with the Department of Criminal Investigation and Investigation, to report such criminal practices.

And she explained that the public should not share any confidential information, such as account numbers, bank cards, passwords, personal identification codes (OTP) or (PIN) and security codes behind the cards, with the need not to be led by any phone call or suspicious message, that they may receive. Through calls, messages (SMS) or any other means, usually the sender's number is unknown, or an unknown person does not disclose his real data.

She stressed the need not to respond and respond to deceptive calls and emails, and quickly report them to take measures to protect their savings from mobile phone hacker attacks, adding that it launched a campaign aimed at educating segments of society about the dangers of falling victim to fraud methods via email and phones, and educating them on how to deal in the event of receiving suspicious messages. .

• E-mails deceive victims and rob them of sums of up to 1500 dirhams by simply clicking on the link.

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