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Credit card scammers’ 
prison term reduced

The jail term of two Asian men, who illegally accessed many people’s credit card information, and used it to siphon off cash from their bank accounts, has been reduced from four months each to two months each by the Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal.

The Court, however upheld the Abu Dhabi Misdemeanours Court verdict, which ordered the deportation of the pair after serving their jail term.

The Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution had referred the two alleged scammers to the Abu Dhabi Misdemeanours Court for fraudulently getting access to the credit card numbers of the victims by sending out text messages to the victims claiming to update their bank information.

Accordingly, the duo used the credit card numbers of the victims to buy iPads.

The Misdemeanours Court handed them a four-months in jail search sentence, to be followed by deportation after completing the jail term.

The two convicts contested the verdict at the Appellate Court, which turned down their petition, but commuted the lower court’s ruling to each two months in jail instead of the four-month imprisonment each.

An official source at the Judicial Department cautioned public of responding to any text messages, whether sent by email or phone, requesting their bank information. The source stressed that banks never ask customers to disclose any secret information by post.

“Such crimes frequently happen, basically due to the lack of awareness among the victims on bank transactions”, the source said, and urged customers not to disclose information on their bank accounts. — news@khaleejtimes.com