The Ministry of Interior has warned citizens and residents of new methods of fraud and deceit in selling and purchasing bank guarantees, exchanging foreign currency, and transferring money in irregular methods by persons or parties within and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In a statement issued today, the Ministry attributed the emergence of these methods to the access of the advanced technology such as the internet, mobile messages and others at home and abroad. The statement said, "Those who deal in these techniques use various methods to lure citizens and residents by giving them false promises of money under the guise of lucrative business deals and humanitarian charitable actions demanding the dispatch of a copy of their official documents or opening an account at a bank, and others to be used in acts of fraud, deceit, involvement in imaginary financial transactions, which may contribute to the deception and deviation towards some of those methods and techniques in various forms." The statement said that the Interior Ministry hopes that all people take precautions and be vigilant so that any member of the society shall not be exploited in an act detrimental to himself, his country and society, calling for informing the competent security authorities of any foreign contacts which they suspect of their sources and objectives.
