Dubai: Man jailed for stealing Dh33,000 in phone scam

The Dubai Criminal Court condemned a 33-year-old Asian man to 90 days in jail, trailed by extradition, for duping an Arab man and taking Dh33,000 from his financial balance.

As per the examination by the Public Prosecution, the denounced spoke with the casualty by telephone and let him know he was a representative at a neighborhood bank. The respondent let him know his card would be deactivated on the off chance that he didn’t refresh his data.

The man then requested that the casualty give him a code that the bank had sent him by means of instant message. After the casualty gave the code, he found that the blamed had held onto Dh33,000.

The casualty immediately informed his and the litigant’s banks. The two banks composed, because of which the blamed was simply ready to pull out Dh15,000. The excess sum was frozen by his bank.

During the examination, the litigant admitted to the wrongdoing. He likewise said he had been blamed two times before for cheating two others in comparative occurrences.

At that point, he had been condemned to a year in jail for one of the cases, and served a six-month term for the second. Be that as it may, he withdrew his assertions under the watchful eye of the court and denied truly having addressed the person in question.

The court affirmed that the blamed used to cheat his casualties by scouring the sites of banks and imitating their workers.