fraudulent
The charge is very suspicious. It's a food vendor in Karama for exactly 50.00.
Even IF I completely forgot about some late night adventure to Karama for a Shwarma, the amount is suspect. How often is your charge exactly 50.00 for anything, especially for food and drink?
Anyway, I did send the 50 AED…bastards Assuming it is fraudulent, I would suspect a charge of 50 AED is most likely to be paid than if they charged 5,000.
This "possible scam" is probably done 100's of times for small amounts, under the radar. Especially to expats leaving.
Brings up a couple more points.
Since my escape from Dubai, my home country phone number is being scammed weekly by Indian hacking scammers telling me they are from Microsoft and I need to log onto my PC.
Makes you wonder if the forwarding contact info I provided at my end of service is being sold to India?
Having a UAE credit card made me nervous, especially when they kept raising the credit limit to 100,000+ AED.
If I would ever do the expat thing again, I would use cash for everything and my home country credit card when needed.