FULL STORY: Dubai Police arrest Hushpuppi & his cohorts for committing almost AED2 billion fraud

A gang of 12 fraudsters involved in a cyber scam has been arrested in Dubai, Dubai Police said on Thursday.

Those arrested include well-known Instagram personalities Raymond Abbas (Hushpuppi) and Olalekan Jacob Ponle aka Woodbery.
They were arrested with 10 other suspects on allegations of fraud involving huge money. Dubbed “Fox Hunt 2”, the operation revealed a hidden online fraud network that was committing crimes outside the UAE, including money-laundering, cyber fraud, hacking, criminal impersonating, scamming individuals, banking fraud and identity theft.
Police said the raid resulted in seizure of incriminating documents pertaining to a well-planned international fraud worth Dh1.6 billion. According to Dubai Police, the gang used to hack corporate emails and send fake emails to corporate customers to change money transfers to the gang’s personal banking accounts. “They were designing and mimicking company and bank websites to steal credit card data and illegally obtain victims’ money before laundering the cash,”
Brig Al Jallaf added. During the arrest, police found a huge amount of data on individuals, companies, bank accounts, credit cards as well as documents of money laundering, online fraud and hacking accounts of victims outside the UAE.
“The forged documents pertained to online fraud outside the country. The fraud was worth more than Dh1.6 billion. We seized more than Dh150 million in cash from them and confiscated 13 luxury cars worth Dh25 million,”
Brig Al Jallaf said. Police confiscated 21 computers, 47 smartphones, 15 memory cards, five hard disks containing 119,580 fraud files as well as addresses of nearly two million victims.

From the raid that was carried out to nab the criminals, officials seized items worth more than AED150 million ($40.9 million) in cash. Confiscated items included:

• 21 computers
• 47 smartphones
• 15 storage memory devices
• 5 hard disks containing data of around 1,926,400 victims
• 13 luxury cars with an estimated value of AED 25 million (obtained from fraud crimes)

.@DubaiPoliceHQ take down "Hushpuppi", "Woodberry", ten international cybercriminals in a special operation dubbed "Fox Hunt 2" pic.twitter.com/SGwhxDWrE8

— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) June 25, 2020

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