UAE: Two telephone con artists captured for hoodwinking occupants

UAE: Two telephone con artists captured for hoodwinking occupants

Two telephone con artists who hoodwinked UAE inhabitants of their money after unlawfully getting their bank subtleties have been captured. 

The Abu Dhabi Police said it captured the Asian men as a team with Ajman Police subsequent to getting a few protests from inhabitants. 

They additionally seized from the men various cell phones, cash and SIM cards which were utilized to trap the casualties through extortion and trickiness.

Significant General Mohammed Suhail Al Rashidi, overseer of the Criminal Security Sector, Abu Dhabi Police said the power will screen individuals attempting to challenge security and taking individuals' cash through false means. 

"The power will seek after these groups of hoodlums any place they may be so they are indicted and get intense disciplines they merit as per the law," said Al Rashidi. 

Colonel Rashid Khalaf Al Dhaheri, Director of the directorate of Criminal Investigations at Abu Dhabi Police cautioned individuals not to succumb to these packs

He said fraudsters claim to be bank authorities and send instant messages or utilize online media (WhatsApp) to swindle individuals by beguiling them that their ATM or Mastercards have been obstructed or ledgers frozen as they didn't refresh their own information. They then, at that point request that they contact a specific telephone number to refresh the information. In the wake of getting the individual's subtleties, the conmen use them to take their cash from records and Mastercards. 

As per Al Dhaheri, the power as of late got a few reports from the casualties expressing that they had been swindled in such telephone tricks.

The authority likewise exhorted individuals not to reveal individual data, financial balance numbers or Visa subtleties to anybody via telephone, email or instant messages. 

Last month, Abu Dhabi Police dispatched another middle committed for liaising with banks and getting monetary misrepresentation reports. The middle at the Criminal Investigations Directorate empowers officials to speak with banks and get reports of monetary misrepresentation and of hooligans taking advantage of clients.

A joint security group that incorporates authorities from the bank misrepresentation office and the examinations directorate has been framed to manage casualties who have been exposed to extortion by lawbreakers. The group will screen the strategies and take on fraudsters professing to be bank workers and requesting that casualties update accounts so as access their classified data. 

Individuals have been prompted not to react to obscure calls, keep up with the classification of their own and monetary data and to report such cases to specialists right away.