Fraud Ring Busted in Rabat: Fake Arrests and Begging Scam Exposed

The BNPJ services discovered that the three accused had defrauded four people, reports Assabah. The first victim escaped the clutches of the alleged scammers. One of them called her to tell her that her brother, a married man, had been arrested in Mohammedia, with a woman. He had demanded 40,000 dirhams from her in exchange for the release of this relative. The victim’s luck was that she called her brother on the phone, who told her that he had not been arrested for such a case.

The second victim, on the other hand, fell into the trap of the alleged scammers. She received a call from a supposed chief of the second police district of Hassan (Rabat). He made her believe that her brother had been arrested for adultery, and that she had to pay 10,000 dirhams to get him out of trouble. She transferred a sum of 7,000 dirhams to the gang.

The third victim paid 6,000 dirhams to obtain the supposed release of her young brother who would have had a relationship with a married woman, while the fourth victim transferred 8,000 dirhams to have a relative released who was involved in a traffic accident, specifies the same source.

The BNPJ investigators managed to arrest a man in his forties, originally from Zemamra, who would be the head of the network. He usurped the title of senior official in Agadir. As for the beggar, who was in charge of recovering the transferred sums, her arrest took place in Safi.