Dubai: Knowledge of electronic crime remains low despite campaigns, said a Dubai attorney’s workplace official.
Lead prosecutor Dr. Khalid Ali Al Junaibi said the goal of electronic crime in Dubai is lower for other countries, but that many other people remain victims.
“The major electronic crime is to win a scam or ask someone to request main bank points to update a person’s bank account. This is a point of misdemeanor, but the public awareness point remains relatively low,” said prosecutor Al Junaibi, a virtual consultation on electronic crime and spreading rumors.
The session, organized through the Community Development Authority in cooperation with the Dubai Prosecutor’s Office, was held Monday via Instagram to let the public know the danger of online scams.
“Don’t accept social media offers as a truth and don’t give access to smart apps on your devices like phones, computers, and tablets. Scammers can use their knowledge to access their money,” Al Junaibi added.
With the enormous progression of generation and synthetic intelligence, criminals can mimic the person’s voice or signature to defraud others and borrow their money, according to Al Junaibi.
“There is a program that the scammer can use to create a video for a celebrity and then touch the victim posing as the celebrity to lie to him. Other systems now mimic the person’s voice and then touch others in the same tone,” Al said. Junaibi.
“We have known such cases in other countries and we want to raise awareness in the United Arab Emirates about these types of scams.”
He believes that parents, schools, government entities, embassies and consulates play a more important role in raising awareness of electronic crime in the UAE through more campaigns, workshops and campaigns.
Al Junaibi also suggested that others check the page online before purchasing items, as at most, other people use their credit cards to buy items, especially the COVID-19 crisis.
“The global bill for online scams is estimated at $4 trillion, according to a foreigner published in 2019. It shows how harmful online crime can be,” he said.
The United Arab Emirates was one of the first countries in the region to introduce a cybercrime law to save it cybercrime, but Al Junaibi believes that this legislation wants to be up-to-date to adapt to the immediate progression of technology.
“After 4 or five years, legislation may not be enough to expand cybercrime. The latest update to the law in 2012 and is a long time with the immediate progression of cybercrime around the world,” Al Junaibi added.
Al Junaibi stated that in one case, an elderly woguy won a call from a user posing as a bank worker and claimed that her credit card was locked and asked for a copy of her passport and ID card. She gave her main points after trusting the appellant and the guy stole her savings.
“Scammers are employing a new scam trend after many other people realized the winning scams,” Al Junaibi said. “The new way is to impersonate a bank agent and call the victim to request key data and points to update the bank account, or claim that there is a credit card lock. Don’t give your touch data or identification to strangers over the phone,” Al Junaibi added.
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