Bags of money" tempt Moroccans... and fake billions evaporate in the sk
حكاية النصابة الافارقة.هام لكل مواطن مغربي.النصب و الاحتيال
After the immigrants from some countries that are experiencing tensions were taking advantage of modern means of communication in order to practice fraud, by sending messages via e-mail or social networking sites to their supposed victims, asking for their help in bringing large sums of money from their countries of origin to Morocco, In exchange for a share of that money, some immigrants took these scams from virtual space to the real world.
Social networks are full of warnings published by Moroccans, who have previously been subject to this fraud, warning against the temptation of “bags of money” that fraud practitioners consider their victims to benefit from, if they manage to bring it into Morocco, as they demand the supposed victim to enable them from a certain amount of money , in order to prepare papers for bringing money into Morocco, and as soon as they get the required amount of money, they disappear from view.
Hespress met an immigrant practicing this type of scam. after an appointment by phone; With an open face and expressions of seriousness, this immigrant from Guinea Conakry said, according to his claim, that he had a large sum of money estimated at more than a million dollars, which he inherited from his father, who was a general and died in a military coup. He keeps that money in a briefcase at his family's home in Guinea Conakry.
This immigrant, whom we met in the city of Témara, confirms that he was forced to leave his country because of the unstable conditions it knows, and to come to Morocco in search of someone to help him bring his money into the Kingdom, in order to invest it here; In order to convince his supposed victim, he says that he is looking to buy a café located in a privileged location in the capital, Rabat, before moving to the stage of trying to defraud, by asking the supposed victim to grant him an amount of money he set at 11,000 dirhams.
While calls to beware of the scams practiced by immigrants arriving in Morocco continue, Said Tabbel, former head of the Migration Committee of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, downplayed the seriousness of this phenomenon, considering that highlighting it comes within the framework of restrictions on immigrants, especially those coming from African countries. south of the desert.
Said Al-Tabla, told Hespress: “The monument has existed in Morocco for a long time, and it did not start with the delegations of immigrants. There may be a few immigrant individuals who commit fraud, but we should not generalize this phenomenon.” The official at the Moroccan Association for Human Rights added: “We cannot deny the existence of fraud cases, but this should not be a way to say that it was the immigrants who introduced this phenomenon into the country.”