Public Prosecution says 11 arrested for impersonating bank employees

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The Public Prosecution’s Financial Fraud Unit is investigating 11 suspects, who formed a gang allegedly to defraud citizens and residents and were running the illegal schemes from a house, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported citing an official source.

They were arrested, pending further investigation, in accordance with the Law of Criminal Procedure.

The investigation showed that the accused impersonated bank employees and sent text messages to their victims’ phones with false notifications such as disruption of banking services for ATM cards and demanding confidential information and numbers to reactivate the services.

Following this, they would use the information to access bank accounts.

The source stressed the need for community awareness about the facts related to the methods and patterns of financial fraud through the means of communication, ensuring the importance of protecting and preserving private data and not sharing it, except through approved channels.