| 30 Jul 2010 |
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Batelco warns against UAE scam
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BatelcoBatelco
warned its customers yesterday to be on the alert against scams, after a spate of fraudulent phone calls were reported.The calls are being made from several mobile numbers in the UAE (numbers starting with +971) and customers are being told that they have won large sums of money and being asked for their bank account details.
One customer D.L., who received one of these calls, told the Bahrain Tribune that she kept receiving missed calls from the UAE number (+971) 501877017 on Saturday. "At first I did not respond but later in the day I thought that it could be a friend who may have come to the Gulf region and was trying to contact me," she said.
office in the UAE. He informed me that I had won BD50,000 in a lottery."But D.L. got suspicious when the man asked for her name. "I asked how did he not know my name if he had my number and worked for BatelcoBatelco
. He kept avoiding the question and insisted that my name was needed if I was to claim the prize. 'It is BD50,000, just give your name and claim the prize,' he kept repeating," she said. The man gave up after a while and did not call again after that.BatelcoBatelco's Group GM for Media and Government Relations Ahmed Al Janahi, said in a statement: "A number of BatelcoBatelco's customers have received calls or missed calls from +971 numbers. The UAE callers are using BatelcoBatelco's name and advising our customers that they have won BD50,000 and requesting personal information such as name, bank account details and CPR numbers to arrange payment of the money."
© Bahrain Tribune 2010
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