Combating cybercrime warns of fraudulent applications and pages for sorcery

Al-Anbat -Lima Zeitawi 

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of Public Security warned of the spread of applications, pages, and websites whose users claim the ability to provide spiritual and psychological treatment and solve problems, taking advantage of the needs of their victims, who are prone to fraud.

The unit indicated in a warning post on its page that those who are based on such websites and electronic applications claim to be spiritual healers capable of solving psychological, social, and economic problems and even predicting the future, as well as deluding victims of the existence of work or magic that caused harm to them, claiming that they have religious abilities to solve it, and asking to buy some materials, such as incense, and transfer sums of money that may be large.

This perpetrator also exploits his victim's vulnerability by asking him—or her—for private information about him and his family members, as well as private photos, and then blackmails his victims by threatening to publish them and demanding money in exchange for not doing so.

It has also been noted recently in electronic sorcery cases received by the Anti-Cybercrime Unit that fraudsters ask their victims to download certain applications on their personal phones, and after technical examination of those applications, it was found that the application is prepared for hacking and sends photos and videos of the victim to blackmail her and obtain additional money.

The Cybercrime Unit called on everyone not to deal with such applications and websites, from which many have been subject to fraud, stressing the need to report them as the Cybercrime Unit pursues, tracks, and prevents those in charge of them if they are from outside the country.