Dubai: Man uses wife’s credit card to settle girlfriend’s traffic fine

Dubai: A Dubai-based woman who reported a credit card hacking incident to the police was surprised when she discovered that her husband used her card to pay his girlfriend’s traffic fines.

After receiving a notification from the bank about a transaction on her credit card, she contacted the bank to freeze her card and reported it to the police, believing that her credit card got stolen, only to find out later that it was her husband who used her card to pay his girlfriend’s traffic fines.

According to Captain Abdullah Al Shehi, Deputy Director of Cyber-Crime Department at Dubai Police, the police received a complaint from a woman about a stranger who used her credit card to pay traffic fines.

It was a strange case because the wife didn’t know that her husband used her credit card to pay his friend’s traffic fines. The friend didn’t know that he was married and the wife didn’t know that he had a girlfriend,” Captain Al Shehi, said.

 The woman’s husband was having an affair with another woman who used the credit card to pay her traffic fines, not knowing the man was married. Later, police summoned the girlfriend for further investigation. It came as a surprise when she learned that the credit card belonged to her partner’s wife.