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Victims of cybercrime committed through cyberspace, computers and networks can report it in the UAE via the e-crime UAE platform

These crimes take many forms including electronic blackmail, technical breakthroughs, financial frauds and other crimes committed via the Internet and social networks.

It can also be reported on any crime or suspicion that occurs through social networking sites, and threatens community security, public morals, or public order through their smartphones via the "Community Safe" smart app launched by the Federal Public Prosecution.

The smart app enables individuals to report via four methods: images, video, voice recording, and download the link.

 

Electronic blackmail and threats to people are considered a crime punishable by UAE law. Article 16 of Federal Law No. 5 of 2012, which specializes in combating IT crime, stipulates the following:

Whoever extorts or threatens another person to compel him to do an act or refrain from using it using an information network or an information technology means, shall be punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years and a fine of no less than two hundred and fifty thousand dirhams and not exceeding five hundred thousand dirhams, or one of these two penalties.

The penalty shall be imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years, if the threat is to commit a felony or to assign matters that are dishonest to him.

 

In its Article 11, the UAE legislator specified in the Law on Combating Information Technology Crimes the unlawful seizure of movable property, benefit, or bond in a fraudulent manner, as follows:

Whoever seizes for himself or for others unlawfully seizures of money or benefit, or on the bond or signature of this bond, shall be punished with imprisonment for a period of no less than one year and a fine of no less than two hundred and fifty thousand dirhams and not exceeding one million dirhams or one of these two penalties. Fraudulent or false name or impersonation improperly through the information network or electronic information system or one of the means of information technology.