Hundreds arrested over Etisalat phone scam
via ArabianBusiness
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/hundreds-arrested-over-etisalat-phone-scam-426071.html
UAE最大の通信電話会社Etisalatは2009年からドバイ警察と協力、プリペイド携帯電話使用消費者を狙った大規模組織犯罪を操作。この度数百人規模の逮捕に成功したと発表。
Etisalat, the UAE’s largest mobile phone operator, first issued a warning to its customers in 2009 advising them not to give out personal information to callers claiming to work for them. More than 80 readers have contacted Arabian Business to say they have been targeted by scammers who claim they have won often significant cash prizes.
One subscriber said he had been told he had won AED200,0000 in a joint campaign between Etisalat and Dubai Islamic Bank.
“[I was told] to get this money I need to purchase AED1,500 worth of Etisalat cards and to give him pin nos of those cards,” the reader said. “It was my big mistake and I did the same as they said.”
“This scam is alive and kicking,” said another reader. “Just got a call… giving the same old story. ‘Number on SIM card matches and winning amount is AED250,000.’ Once you say, you think it's a scam and you put down the phone, they don't dare to call you back.”
Jaber Al Janahi, vice present for corporate communications at Etisalat, said the telco had worked with Dubai Police to enable the arrest of hundreds of phone fraudsters.
ワタシも乗せられた一人だったので、この逮捕記事に目が行った。 物凄く巧みで高度なプロ手口、心理犯。
乗せられた時は、余の見事さにう～んと唸った。