Six foreigners arrested in Morocco for alleged links to scam and fraud on social media

National Judicial Police Brigade arrested, Wednesday, six foreigners from Senegal, Nigeria, and Guinea, including two women, for their alleged links to a scam and fraud network on social media, say the national police (DGSN).

The network members proceeded through accessing communication and chat websites using fake accounts and aliases, pretending to be European nationals willing to marry Moroccan women.

They then send their victims packages supposed to contain valuable gifts, and significant sums of money to be invested in Morocco, before asking them to transfer amounts of cash as customs charges, point out the police in a press release.

Technical and field investigations revealed that the suspects received significant sums of money through these fraudulent activities, adds the same source, specifying that one of them was caught in the act holding 75k dirhams sent by a victim.

Meanwhile, the raids helped to seize money transfer receipts, computers, mobile phones, and the goods stolen during their scam and fraud operations.

The people in question were held in police custody to complete the inquiry conducted under the supervision of the public prosecutor's office, while investigations are still ongoing to arrest other individuals involved in these crimes and to identify any possible national and international branches of this criminal network.