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Police detained the gang for sending faux messages to victims’ informing them they wanted to resume their checking account info or their banking companies could be suspended. This allowed the fraudsters to entry folks’s accounts and switch funds.
A group of investigators from the Investigations and Criminal Investigations Department, of the Ras Al Khaimah Police, labored alongside Sharjah Police to find the culprits within the emirate, the place they discovered a stash of financial institution playing cards and money.
In a press release, Brigadier Tariq Mohammed bin Saif, Acting Director-General of Operations on the Ras Al Khaimah Police, stated the police operations room acquired a phone report that was referred to the Al Jazeera Island Police Station, because the sufferer was inside its jurisdiction when the incident occurred.
The report additionally said that a big sum of cash had been taken from a sufferer after a caller claimed to be a financial institution consultant. The report was instantly referred to the Investigations and Criminal Investigations Department-Cyber Crimes Branch of the Ras Al Khaimah Police, which then took the required safety measures.
A group of investigators from the Investigations and Criminal Investigations Department who’re skilled and certified to take care of cybercrimes was fashioned and shortly situated the culprits in Sharjah, froze their financial institution accounts, seized their cash and closed their balances, he additional added.
With the assistance of the Sharjah Police, they arrested the culprits, who had many financial institution playing cards from overseas accomplices and money from their unlawful actions, Brigadier bin Saif stated, including that authorities took authorized motion in opposition to the culprits and tried to revive victims’ rights.
He then urged the general public to not work together with strangers over the cellphone or through WhatsApp, particularly these claiming to be financial institution representatives and that their banking info must be up to date.
