Hama-Sana
The Criminal Security Branch in Hama Governorate arrested a person who defrauded citizens through social networking sites.
The Ministry of Interior stated in a statement that SANA received a copy of it that the Criminal Security Branch in Hama had received a claim from a female citizen that she was subjected to a fraud by a person she met through a social networking site and impersonated Haider N, as he lied to her that he could release her arrested husband in exchange for a sum of money. She sent a remittance of four million Syrian pounds to him, in addition to the branch receiving a second complaint of a citizen being defrauded in the same way, with an amount of seven hundred thousand Syrian pounds, in exchange for securing a job for his son outside the country.
The ministry added in its statement that by investigating and collecting information, the branch was able to detect the perpetrator and arrested him, called Talal M., and by interrogating him, he confessed that he had created a fake page on a social networking site under the name Tarmah Tarmah and that he impersonated Haider N and defrauded the mentioned citizenship with an amount of nine million Lira in two installments in exchange for her husband’s release and that he asked her to transfer the amount in the name of the so-called Ahmed D, who was also arrested and admitted receiving the amount at the request of his friend in exchange for twenty thousand pounds for each transfer.
The arrested Talal also admitted defrauding the second citizen in the same way, with an amount of seven hundred thousand Syrian pounds, under the pretext of securing a job for his son on a commercial ship outside the country.
The statement pointed out that the sum of five million Syrian pounds was recovered from the arrested and handed over to its owners as assets, and that investigations are still ongoing with the arrested, and they will be submitted to the competent judiciary.
