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Fraud Hits Mobile Industry

Online casino gamblers have learned over the past several years to be very cautious when it comes to picking new gambling sites and sharing personal information over the Web. Mobile internet gambling users in Qatar are now learning the same lesson –that fraudsters will go to huge lengths to perpetrate identity theft and clean out a player’s bank account. Mobile online casinos in Qatar have been issuing large-scale warnings to internet gamblers concerning a new text messaging scam that uses sophisticated telephone and text messaging technology to tell mobile users that they are the lucky winners of a European-based lottery.

The scam is just another form of phishing fraud so that the fraudsters can convince Qatar residents to release personal family details and bank/credit card numbers. The scam is specifically targeting mobile users in the Middle East –and not just mobile online casino gamblers either. The phishing scam sends out a text message to mobile users informing them of the lottery win and giving them a phone number to call and find out more about the prize. The telephone number is routed through Liechtenstein (authorities do not believe that the fraud is originating from this area) and instructs the potential winner in Arabic about the prize they have just won – and then the automated systems takes them through a collection of their personal and banking information.

The Qatar authorities are also issuing the warning and have also attempted to block the numbers that the fraudsters are using for the call-in line – around 20 numbers have been blocked but the scam consistently continues under a different number. Qatar text and online mobile users are being heavily warned against responding to any sort of text message that indicates that they have won money.