Dubai: Arab man pays $123,000 for a fake prize of $27 million

Dubai Criminal Court received the case of an Arab who was the victim of a scam in which he paid 123,000 US dollars to three African thieves to receive an alleged prize of 27 million dollars from a local bank, the man was asked to transfer the amounts as payment of the prize fees.

The thieves met the victim in Dubai after they invited him to come from his home country, they also showed him a large amount of cash, washing some of it with a special chemical to make sure that it is not counterfeit”, they also asked him to pay for the liquid to be used to wash all counterfeit money.

The prosecution charged the defendants with another charge of forging money -estimated at 2 million US dollars- to be circulated in the country, and two euro currency packages worth 20 000 euros, in addition to the charge of participating with other fugitives in the seizure of 123,000 US dollars from the victim.

The victim told prosecutors that a person contacted him via Facebook about five months before the fraud. The latter told him he had won a prize of $ 27 million from a local bank in Dubai and asked him to send a copy of his passport to complete the procedures for transferring the money, and then he was continuously asked to transfer amounts of money as “fees for the lawyer” who will complete the procedures and “fees for the bank”.