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Explained: What Is The ‘Fake Dubai Prince’ Scam?

ID: 3d266338-32da-52d2-8e45-3f173085a793

STIX ID: report--3d266338-32da-52d2-8e45-3f173085a793

Feed Name: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Date Published: 2026-02-16

Date Updated: 2026-03-26

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This report outlines the Dubai Prince romance scam and its follow-on asset recovery fraud, showing how scammers abuse trust with prestigious personas, accelerate relationships (love-bombing), isolate victims, shift conversations off-platform, and engineer financial requests with detailed instructions (including crypto), while warning about deepfake-enabled video calls; it cites global losses to scams and provides practical red flags from GASA and the Global Cyber Alliance.

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