Police costumes are costumes for victims through visual calls

People revealed that they were subjected to attempts to penetrate their bank accounts in a new fraudulent style that was developed by electronic fraudsters, which is to make video contacts through the application of “Google meetings”, and as soon as the victim opens the line, a person appears in a police uniform to remove the dread in the same victim, and claims that he belongs to the Dubai Police, speaks in a strict language to the victim, and asks him to disclose him On secret data, received by a text message.

For its part, Dubai Police warned against responding to any messages or phone or visual communications from people who claim belonging to it or any other governmental or banking entity, requesting any bank data related to the recipient of the call.

In detail, contestants have developed electronic fraud method through calls and phone text messages, using the video through smart applications, including “Google meetings”, as they randomly call the victims, and once the line is opened, they appear in a military uniform.

(MA) said that she was surprised by a strange call through the “Google meetings” application and being unusual to use this application, which pressed the approval button, to show her a man with African features, wearing a military uniform decorated with many seasant, telling her that he belongs to the Dubai Police.

She added that she immediately closed the video to restrict the call to the voice talk, so I was surprised by him heavily collapsed, and ordered her to restart the video, crying in it, “How do you close the video in my face, your behavior exposes you to accountability because I belong to the Dubai Police.”

She indicated that she was confused and felt fear in the beginning, because he was strict in his speech, but she realized that it was unreasonable for the police to communicate with her in this way, so she closed the call completely, and when she asked her friends, she discovered that some of them were subjected to trying to fraud themselves, and these people asked them to make bank data.

Omar Mohamed said that he had received a text message from the police that included a link asking him to enter to update his information on the system, then he was surprised by an audio notification inviting him to enter a visual interview through the “Google Mitting” application.

He added that he agreed to this as a matter of curiosity and was surprised by a person wearing a police uniform claiming to belong to the Dubai Police, and tells him that the message that was received must be answered with it, because his accounts are about to close because of not updating his data and attaching the image of his identity.

He pointed out that he suspected the person who appeared in front of him, because he was speaking in English, and carrying Asian features, so he asked him why the police resorted to this way to deal with the clients, so that person tried to persuade him that it was a modern means of communication, but he suspected him and closed the call, despite his warning by the fraud, to prevent him from doing it so that he is not accountable.

Samira Abdel Fattah revealed that she received a similar call through the application itself, noting that she usually used it in her postgraduate university studies, and she thought that she was an invitation to a lecture, and when she opened the line, she was shocked by a person telling her that he belonged to the police.

She added that she was confused for seconds, until she told her that she would receive a message from the police and she must tell him the number that connects her through the message until her data is updated to pay off violations related to residency, so she realized that he is a fraud, and she told him that there is no need to do so, because she does not have a bank account at all, and the call was closed in the face.

It is noteworthy that the Dubai Police has finally arrested three criminal gangs of 13 people who use these phone fraudulent methods to inflict victims, by impersonating staff affiliated with official bodies, such as the police or banks, and they delude the targeted persons of the need to update their bank data, pay traffic violations, or pay violations related to residence Their money.

The Anti -Fraud Center at the General Administration of Investigations and Criminal Investigation at Dubai Police said that these fraudsters use elaborate fraudulent methods, to persuade the victims to disclose bank card data, such as the triple insurance number in the back of the card, and the secret password for one time, relying on the confidence of community members of the employees of the official authorities.

He stressed the importance of not sharing personal or banking information with any unreliable party, or responding to people who ask to update data over the phone or share any secret information and data, calling on members of society to immediately report any suspicious contacts through the nearest police station or through the “EcRIME” platform specializing in receiving this type of communications or through the Dubai Police application.

He emphasized that the police, banks, or any government agencies do not ask their customers to disclose their bank data or their personal information through text messages or emails or call them phone under the pretext of updating their bank accounts.

Imprisonment

The decree of a federal law No. 34 of 2021, regarding the fight against rumors and cybercrime, deals with the crime of electronic hacking in several articles, starting from the second article in the first semester in Chapter One, which states that it is punished with imprisonment and a fine of no less than 100 thousand dirhams and not exceeding 300 thousand dirhams or one of the two penalties, everyone who penetrates a website or a system of information or a technical means, and the fine reaches 500 thousand Dirham if the penetration results in destruction or stopping from work or other damages, such as deleting, divulging, destroying, changing or copying, and the punishment is included to imprisonment in general if the penetration is for the purpose of obtaining data or information to achieve an unlawful purpose.