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    90-year-old woman loses $32m in phone scam in Hong Kong

    21 Apr 2021

    Hong Kong's elderly are plagued by phone scammers who seek out vulnerable and wealthy victims willing to transfer money or make bogus investments. Police said scammers targeted an elderly woman living in a mansion on The Peak, Hong Kong's ritziest neighbourhood.

    Last summer criminals contacted the unnamed woman pretending to be Chinese public security officials.

    Company official jailed for Dhs501,000 scam

    07 Oct 2019

    A realty company official who forged documents to swindle Dhs501,553 electronic devices from a supplier lost the case at the Dubai Appeals Court on Sunday.

    Abu Dhabi Police warn against fraud, scam calls requesting bank data

    19 Jun 2021

    Abu Dhabi Police also warned of links to fraudulent electronic sites, including small text messages that simulate government institutions and troll the public and tempt them with advantages of cooperating with government agencies through their websites.

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    Delhi Deputy CM Sisodia arrested in excise policy scam

    26 Feb 2023

    Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was on Sunday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the excise policy scam matter after day-long questioning.

    30-member gang and 7 firms convicted for laundering money and embezzling Dhs32m in an online scam in Dubai

    12 Jun 2023

    The 30 members of the gang were sentenced to a combined total of 96 years of imprisonment. They will be deported from the country after serving their sentence. The Court ordered the defendants to jointly pay a fine of over Dhs32 million.

    UAE warns residents of massive fines for wire fraud

    28 Apr 2023

    TheProsecution has urged internet and social media users to be vigilant and avoid dealing with unauthorised or unscrupulous parties who use misleading advertising to entice their victims to wire money for financial profits.

    British trio scam 13 companies, steal millions from them

    23 Mar 2020

    A British trio allegedly claimed their two companies have signed contracts worth billions with Expo, then used that to scam 13 suppliers into selling them products worth millions of dirhams.

    Fake heiress jailed for scamming New York

    10 May 2019

    A German-Russian fraudster who tricked New York high society into believing she was a wealthy heiress and stealing more than $200,000 was jailed on Thursday for up to 12 years.

    End silence on ballot scam, Vijayan told

    06 May 2019

    Kerala’s opposition Congress party on Monday asked Pinarayi Vijayan, the state’s chief minister, to end his silence on the raging police postal ballot controversy.

    Kitten ruse costs woman $770,000 in Hong Kong crypto scam

    10 Feb 2023

    Nearly 1,900 scams involving cryptocurrency were reported to Hong Kong police in the first 10 months of last year, a major increase on the 494 in the whole of 2020, police told AFP.

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