It deludes the victims that she means someone else. Then you lure him into the trap
Messages from an unknown woman targeting her recipients in a new fraudulent way
Counselor Khalid Al-Junaibi: "The fraudulent method does not change at all, but the lie invented by the fraudster changes."
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Recently, a new fraudulent method has spread, consisting of seemingly unintentional text messages, received from numbers from outside the country through chat applications, for accounts bearing pictures of women characterized by a degree of beauty, during which the alleged woman addresses the targeted victim with a random name on the grounds that there is knowledge and a business relationship between them, and when the recipient replies that he is not the wanted person, she opens a different dialogue as if she wants to get to know him and tries to entice him with financial gains.
A number of recipients of these messages revealed to "Emirates Today" that the unknown woman, or the person impersonating her, has the professionalism and ability to drag the target to talk to him, and then take the initiative to entice him to work together and achieve major gains.
On these methods, the Chief Prosecutor of the Deira Prosecution in Dubai, who specializes in cybercrime, Counselor Dr. Khalid Al-Junaibi, told "Emirates Today" that the fraudulent method does not change at all, but rather the lie invented by the fraudster changes every time after he realizes that his previous lie was revealed and people became aware of it.
He added that fraudsters usually take advantage of major events and events to hunt their victims, as on each occasion a new lie appears, such as promoting awards on the occasion of Expo, job advertisements, updating bank statements, the lie of postal parcels and others.
He explained that these fraudulent methods were launched on some when they first appeared, until people realized what they were, and they are no longer useful, and this is what fraudsters rely on, as they realize that the secret is how to convince the victim of the new lie, until they invent another.
He pointed out that the lie this time depends on how to convince the target person that the other party sent him the message by chance, so the fraudster seeks to gain his trust hiding behind an image that may arouse his curiosity, and he is closer to throwing his nets in a wide sea, trying to catch the largest number of victims.
Al-Junaibi pointed out that «some believe that these are naïve tricks, and it is difficult to fall into them, but by virtue of the cases and issues we are going through, there are people who fall into this trap, perhaps because they are not sufficiently aware of modern means of communication, and their dangers».
He stressed that this particular crime cannot take place without the contribution of the victim, whether by disclosing his confidential data, or by clicking on suspicious links for reasons that cannot be acceptable, such as paying for a parcel that he does not expect in the first place, or to buy a fast meal for less than its known price.
He outlined a number of steps to protect members of society from the risks of electronic fraud, the most important of which are not responding to messages from unknown people, disclosing credit card data by phone or online, not trusting messages promising to win a prize or receiving gifts through postal parcels, not buying through suspicious websites or accounts on social media platforms, or clicking on anonymous links in emails.
In addition, people who received these deceptive messages revealed the nature of the fraudulent method, Omar Mohammed said that a message received from an external number belonging to an Asian country via the application «WhatsApp», and the account carried a picture of a woman sent him a phrase in English «Hello Mr. Nasser, did you receive my message via mail».
He added that he responded to her spontaneously, explaining that he was not the intended person, so she apologized politely, noting that her assistant gave her an incorrect phone number, and that the number of the intended person is very similar to his phone number, so he told her that there was no problem.
He pointed out that he thought that the dialogue ended at this point, but she continued to talk and asked him about the place where he lives, and he told her that he resides in Dubai, and she expressed her admiration for the city, and then raised a conversation with him about the nature of his work and her work as a businesswoman in the field of clothing, and then expressed her desire to open a field for her work in the country, and asked him if he was interested in that will reap large profits, but he suspected her and withheld her phone number.
Ahmed Ali said he received a message from a woman with beautiful features asking him, "Hello Mr. Naseem, can you tell me more about the services your tourism agency can offer in Dubai?" , pointing out that he explained to the author of the letter that he is not the intended person, so he was surprised by her trying to drag him to another conversation and talk about major opportunities that could generate great profits for him, but he did not feel comfortable with them, and did not respond to them. As for Emad Mamdouh, he received a message from an external number that also belongs to the account of a woman as well, asking him directly if Frankie is from the house interior design company in Dubai, and when he replied that he was not the intended person, she tried to seduce him with a soft talk, but he repelled her.
• "Scammers come up with new lies to carry out a single crime."