{"id":44517,"date":"2022-03-22T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=44517"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:50:16","slug":"public-prosecution-explains-penalties-of-fake-e-mails-websites-online-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/03\/22\/public-prosecution-explains-penalties-of-fake-e-mails-websites-online-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Prosecution explains penalties of fake e-mails, websites, online accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UAE Public Prosecution has released a short film across its social media accounts explaining the penalties of creating fake e-mails, websites and online accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the video, Article (11) of the Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 on combatting rumours and cybercrimes, stipulates that any person who creates fake website, online account or e-mail, impersonating a natural or legal person, shall be subject to imprisonment and a fine of not less than AED 50,000 and not more than AED 200,000, or one of the two penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Public Prosecution further elaborated that the offender shall be imprisoned for a minimum of two years, if they use or allow any person to use the fake website, online account or e-mail to cause harm to the impersonated victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A penalty of imprisonment of not more than five years, and a fine of not less than AED 200,000 and not more than AED 2,000,000, shall be applicable if such fake website, online account or e-mail impersonates any UAE entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post is part of the Public Prosecution&#8217;s continuous efforts to promote legal culture among members of the community and increase their awareness about the latest legislation in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE Public Prosecution has released a short film across its social media accounts explaining the penalties of creating fake e-mails, websites and online accounts. According to the video, Article (11) of the Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 on combatting rumours and cybercrimes, stipulates that any person who creates fake website, online account or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44518,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44517\/revisions\/44518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}