The Royal Oman Police (ROP) said that its anti-financial fraud department has arrested an expatriate on charges of impersonation of a bank employee.
ROP said that the criminal method involved was that the victim while transfering a sum of money through a money exchange, receives a phone call from the exchange employee.
The exchange employee presented himself as a bank employee where the victim had his account.
The victim was asked to update the bank card details to facilitate the money transfer. He was asked to share the OTP received via text messages, which enabled the accused to withdraw large sums of money from the victim’s account.
The police reported that the case is underway.
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