Dubai's Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has been forced to issue another alert to both the financial services community and members of the public of an email scam distributed in its name.
The email address is being sent to managers, directors and CEOs of companies claiming to be from the Dubai International Financial Service Authority (DIFCA) using both the name and logo of the real Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and the identity of a DIFCA employee. The DFSA warns that the scam letter is linked to organised crime and the offer enticing brokers and agents into an equity and project management programmes with promises of loan funds between US$2.5m to US$5m on a rate of 3.5% per annum is completely false. However, neither the DIFC nor the DFSA offer parti...
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