The security services in Al-Mahra Governorate were able to arrest a gang of 4 people, including a woman, who was hacking merchants’ accounts and mobile phones and transferring sums of money.

An official security source explained that this gang is part of a network that receives sums of money within the governorates under the authority of the terrorist Houthi militia and sends them back to the governorate, noting that the arrest process came when the Criminal Investigation Department received several reports from citizens about being subjected to fraud and hacking. And transferring money from their accounts.

The source added that after the search and investigation process, the gang members were identified and permission was taken from the prosecution to search their homes, and the means used in the crime were seized, which were laptop computers, mobile phones, communications cards, and flash drives, pointing out that the investigation with the perpetrators showed that they used hacking applications and mobile phone hacks to access Accounts and data and obtaining what they want from them.

The source called on citizens, merchants and money changers to take caution and use safe means in their financial operations and official dealings with money changers and banks, not to use text messages and social media messages, to quickly inform the competent authorities and not to tolerate such crimes.