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Dubai saleswoman goes on a spending spree with stolen card

A saleswoman is standing trial for going on a shopping spree using someone else's credit card after it was left at the airport's duty free shop.

  • By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
  • Published: 00:05 April 7, 2008
  • Gulf News

Dubai: A saleswoman is standing trial for going on a shopping spree using someone else's credit card after it was left at the airport's duty free shop.

The 24-year-old Uzbek saleswoman pleaded guilty before the Dubai Court of first Instance on Sunday.

The Public Prosecution charged the saleswoman, M.Y., who works in Dubai International Airport's duty free section with taking the forgotten credit card and pocketing some Dh9,000 worth of purchases.

Electronic fraud

M.Y. was charged with conning a number of shops and committing electronic fraud by signing the purchase receipts on behalf of a 28-year-old Iranian woman, G.A., the card owner.

"I came to Dubai for a visit one day around midnight. I purchased some goods worth Dh170 with my credit card from the duty free section at the arrivals terminal. I left the airport and a month later I went to the bank and discovered that the card was missing. Then I realised that I had forgotten it at the airport counter. The bank teller informed me that the credit card balance had reached Dh9,000 and it had been used since the date I visited the airport until I asked the bank to freeze it," the Iranian victim said in her statement.

The suspect confessed during questioning to using the credit card. Police arrested her after tracking her down through the purchase transactions.

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