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CASE 290  |  3 women  |  August ?, 2021  |  UAE
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DATABASE RECORD
  id                  290
  date                August ?, 2021
  original_date       August ?, 2021
  year                2021
  month               8
  quarter             2021-Q3
  victim              3 women
  location            Dubai, UAE
  country             UAE
  scenario            P2P Trade Gone Wrong
  description         4 Africans rob three women of $100,000 in a fake Bitcoin deal
  kidnappings         0
  violence_torture    0
  drugs_alcohol       0
  weapons             0
  theft               1
  life_taken          0
  money_wanted        Dhs342,000
  coin_type           Fiat (DHS)
  reports             Gulf Today
  notes               They were robbed at knifepoint, not gunpoint
  has_processed_date  0
  created_at          2025-11-14 09:05:23
  (flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against
   their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the
   same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.)

AI SUMMARY  [revised on review, verified against the sources in this file. Live DB still holds the shorter bulk-import summary — apply this to it.]
  **Victims:** Three women in Dubai, UAE — one of whom had agreed to buy cryptocurrency for Dhs300,000 and brought two friends to the meeting.
  
  **Attackers:** A gang of four (described in the report as African, one a fugitive); all were convicted.
  
  **Attack Method:** An man offered one of the women Bitcoin for Dhs300,000 and arranged to meet in Al Nahda; after the three women waited in a car, four men surprised them and ordered them to hand over the money.
  
  **Violence Used:** The women were threatened with weapons (the conviction was for robbery at knifepoint; the victims described being menaced with blunt objects); no injuries were reported.
  
  **Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No Bitcoin changed hands; the robbers seized a bag holding Dhs300,000, a second bag holding Dhs63,000, other valuables and the women's passports, then fled by car.
  
  **Status:** A driver waiting in one of the women's cars noted the getaway plate; police identified a suspect the victims recognised, arrested him, and he led them to two others. The four were sentenced to one year in jail, fined Dhs342,000, and ordered deported.

LINKED SOURCES
  [url]  https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2022/02/14/4-steal-dhs350000-through-fake-bitcoin-deal

NOTES ON THIS FILE
  * matched to sheet row 96: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides

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ARTICLE 1
  Source   Gulf Today
  URL      https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2022/02/14/4-steal-dhs350000-through-fake-bitcoin-deal
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4 Africans rob three women of Dhs350,000 in a fake Bitcoin deal

The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced a gang of 4 Africans, including a fugitive to one year in prison and ordered them to pay jointly a fine of Dhs342,000 over the charges of robbery under knife-point.
All of them will be deported after serving their jail term.
The details of the cases dates back to when the convicts lured the victims (three women) to a fake deal to sell “Bitcoin.”
Earlier in last August, three women lodged a complaint stating that they had been subjected to robbery under knifepoint by African persons.
One of the victims said in the investigations that an African man offered her to buy cryptocurrency for Dhs300,000, and she accepted the offer and agreed to meet in Al Nahda, Dubai, she added, noting that she accompanied by two of her friends reached the specified location in time.
After waiting for few minutes in a car owned by one of them, the women were surprised by four persons threatening them with blunt objects, ordering them to hand over the money they brought for the cryptocurrency deal.
They gangsters were able to snatch the bag that contained Dhs300,000, in addition to another containing Dhs63,000, other valuable items and their passports as well.
The driver of one of the three women stated in his testimony that he was waiting inside one of the women’s vehicles after they reached the scene, where he heard screaming and saw two Africans threatening the three women, stealing bags and items and fleeing the place in another vehicle.
The driver was able to write down the plate number of the vehicle in which they ran away.
An investigation team managed to identify one of the suspects, as his photo was shown to the victims, who recognised him.
He was arrested and admitted to his presence at the crime scene at the request of one of his friends who asked to drop him to Al Nahda area to complete a “Bitcoin deal.”
They went to the same location at the specified time, as they committed the crime and were able to steal the value of the fake deal, he added.
He also informed the the police about the location of his partners, so two others were arrested, and referred to the Court, where they have been sentenced to one year in jail with a fine equal to the stolen money, in addition to deportation after serving the term.

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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)

4 Africans rob three women of Dhs350,000 in a fake Bitcoin deal

The Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced a gang of 4 Africans, including a fugitive to one year in prison and ordered them to pay jointly a fine of Dhs342,000 over the charges of robbery under knife-point.

All of them will be deported after serving their jail term.

The details of the cases dates back to when the convicts lured the victims (three women) to a fake deal to sell “Bitcoin.”

Earlier in last August, three women lodged a complaint stating that they had been subjected to robbery under knifepoint by African persons.

One of the victims said in the investigations that an African man offered her to buy cryptocurrency for Dhs300,000, and she accepted the offer and agreed to meet in Al Nahda, Dubai, she added, noting that she accompanied by two of her friends reached the specified location in time.

After waiting for few minutes in a car owned by one of them, the women were surprised by four persons threatening them with blunt objects, ordering them to hand over the money they brought for the cryptocurrency deal.

They gangsters were able to snatch the bag that contained Dhs300,000, in addition to another containing Dhs63,000, other valuable items and their passports as well.

The driver of one of the three women stated in his testimony that he was waiting inside one of the women’s vehicles after they reached the scene, where he heard screaming and saw two Africans threatening the three women, stealing bags and items and fleeing the place in another vehicle.

The driver was able to write down the plate number of the vehicle in which they ran away.

An investigation team managed to identify one of the suspects, as his photo was shown to the victims, who recognised him.

He was arrested and admitted to his presence at the crime scene at the request of one of his friends who asked to drop him to Al Nahda area to complete a “Bitcoin deal.”

They went to the same location at the specified time, as they committed the crime and were able to steal the value of the fake deal, he added.

He also informed the the police about the location of his partners, so two others were arrested, and referred to the Court, where they have been sentenced to one year in jail with a fine equal to the stolen money, in addition to deportation after serving the term.

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