MUSCAT: Don’t respond to SMSes purportedly sent by your bank, ‘warning’ that your card would be blocked if you don’t update your details, including credit card details. It is a trick to empty out cash from your account, the Royal Oman Police have warned, after seven expats were arrested on Thursday for stealing money from residents. 

According to a statement from ROP, scammers, who posed as bank employees were arrested after they stole money. The accused, according to ROP, had send text messages to bank customers asking them to update their credit card information. “This then allowed the expats to use the number to withdraw money from the personal accounts of the victims,” ROP pointed out. 

Beware of scammers 
These scammers used different mobile phones in an attempt to avoid being traced.  “We caught them with a large number of mobile phones. They were using several sim cards and some of these mobile phones had draft of the text messages which they were sending to people,” ROP said. 

Despite several efforts by the authorities to intensify awareness among the public about such gangs, residents continue to fall victim to fraud. The ROP have urged residents not to disclose or share their bank information with any unauthorized online banking services.

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