Sharjah24: The Criminal Investigation Department of the Sharjah Police arrested a gang of Asian nationality consisting of (5) people impersonating bank employees, banks, and government institutions to entrap their victims and seize their bank balances, and legal measures were taken against them, by referring them to the Public Prosecution.

Colonel Omar Ahmed Bu Al Zaod, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department, said: The gang took one of the residential apartments as their headquarters to carry out their fraudulent operations, which were followed up and monitored by the Organised Crime Department in the department, after several reports were received about that. After legal measures were taken, the apartment was raided and the perpetrators, mobile phones, computers, and SIM cards that were used by the gang members.

Colonel Bu Al Zaod explained that the fraudsters make random calls to the public’s phone numbers, impersonating bank employees, asking the victims to update their personal data, and warning them to ban or freeze those accounts in the event of not responding to them, which prompts some to do what is asked of them.