Moroccan Police Uncover Million-Dollar ’Jinn Summoning’ Scam in Rabat

The details of this scam are once again provided by the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) in a press release stating that a Moroccan and two sub-Saharans suspected of acts of fraud and charlatanism have been arrested.

Specifically, they had swindled a merchant from Rabat out of the sum of 1,300,000 dirhams as well as movable property "under the pretext of acquiring liquid products used to invoke jinns in order to bring in money". According to the press release, they had "convinced the victim of having supernatural powers, consisting of the invocation of jinns to bring in money using products such as gum arabic (loubane, in Moroccan dialect) and red mercury".

To achieve this, the suspects resorted to charlatanism practices "before fraudulently extracting banknotes from boxes and bags they used to mislead the victim". They had thus promised the victim that this could earn him 230 million dirhams.

"The accused also asked the victim to accompany them to Senegal and incited him to sacrifice livestock and distribute them, before the latter discovered that they were simply talismans as part of fraud and charlatanism," the press release further states, according to which the three suspects were arrested and taken into custody while the investigation continues to arrest other accomplices.