If you’ve been following our saga, you'll know that Spy Shabbir and Agent Karlo both missed the action. But what was the action? And who saw it? To be honest, no one saw it, apart from the CID. Luckily they filled us in.

When J, our transporter put his phone down after talking to Fraudster 1, the CID were on the lookout for anyone turning off their phone at the same time. It wasn’t hard to spot. After all, metro stations aren’t all that crowded in the middle of the day!

So one plain-clothed CID gentleman walks up to the suspect and asks him ‘Do you have a light?’

Fraudster 1: Nope, sorry (We're not certain that this is what he said – but lets just go with this!)

CID: So what are you doing here?

Fraudster 1: Oh I have a couple of iPhones being delivered. I’m waiting for the guy to come with them.

Bingo!

Needless to say, not-so-bright Fraudster 1 was arrested.

Now it was time to get our hands on Fraudster 2. We were high on the success of the first mission. The feeling was almost like watching CSI Miami – only in real life .

This time the CID decided to run the mission themselves. It may have something to do with the JP Ninjas proving a tad bit ineffective during the first mission – but we're not certain. They're the CID after all.

Like the last time, J, our transporter made the call while the CID looked around for people on the phone. Again, not that many people standing around on a sidewalk in Hor al Anz during the middle of the day.

While the CID gentlemen were looking around, the JP Ninjas noticed a man come and ask them about something. Suddenly the CID gentlemen started running – with the man hot on their heels!

The Ninjas were excited. They were going to catch the second fraudster! They were going to triumph. They were going to be heroes! Wait, why was that other man running after the CID?

A few minutes go by and the CID gentlemen don’t come back. The Ninjas can’t see them anymore so they have no idea what’s going on. Then they see the man who ran after them come by.

Spy Shabbir decided to ask him the burning question on everyone's mind: Why had he run after the CID? Was he a cleverly disguised undercover CID officer?

The answer left the Ninjas speechless. They were trying hard not to burst out laughing!

The man was apparently new to the city. All he wanted was to find out how to recharge his Nol card. He saw the plain clothed CID men and decided to ask them – without the faintest clue as to who they were. When the CID started running the man ran after them thinking they were taking him to get his card recharged!

He obviously realised something was off when he saw them running towards someone instead of somewhere and went back on his merry way.

A little while later, the CID returned with – no one!

It turns out the CID got a bit too excited after spotting Fraudster 2 – or maybe ran a bit too slowly. Either way, Fraudster 2 saw them coming and being the tall, lanky, sprinter type guy that he was, ran off across the road and through a row of villas before the CID could catch him.

The Ninjas were a little upset at not having caught Fraudster 2, but hey, they still had Fraudster 1 and he was bound to lead them to the second fraudster. The CID were certain of it.

And they were right! Fraudster 1 sang like a canary. It turns out the fraudsters skimmed credit card information from a restaurant at a local hotel and attempted to use the stolen data at a variety of online stores.

As promised, the CID tracked down and apprehended Fraudster 2 a few days later – by methods unknown and of course, undisclosed. We just wish we were there to see how it went down!

What is interesting is that Fraudster 2 didn’t realise that it was the CID that was after him. He thought we were working on our own (with our private security Ninjas). We got a few taunting calls from him the night after the big chase questioning us as to where his friend was. We kinda gave him directions to CID HQ.

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We continue to deal with fraud on a regular basis. We take it very seriously and continue to raise new cases with the CID. The case above is currently being prosecuted at Dubai Courts.