Online fraud: An Expatriate Suffers a Loss of KD 3,000

  • 22/01/2024

The theft of KD3,000 from an expat's bank account has been confirmed by the Public Prosecution. The expatriate lodged a complaint at Maidan Hawally Police Station, stating that he had received a call from an individual posing as a police officer using a local phone number. The imposter requested the expat's OTP in order to suspend his account, claiming that someone had attempted to steal from it. Subsequently, it was discovered that a total of KD3,000 had been withdrawn from the account, with KD1,000 taken initially and then KD2,000.


Further investigations uncovered that the money had been transferred to a Bangladeshi individual, who was later found to have left the country.

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