Today is the day to tackle the huge elephant in the scamming room on Instagram and all over online platforms: Crown Prince Hamdan from Dubai. Follow this link here to find out more about the real Crown Prince.
The simplest thing to say here is that if you are contacted on Instagram or elsewhere by anyone claiming to be the Crown Prince shown in the images below, the person is a fake and is out to scam you. None of the accounts on Instagram claiming to be the Crown Prince are ever real they are all always scammers looking to part you with your money and your affection.
Crown Prince Hamdan does have a real and verified Instagram account which he uses much like all other genuine Instagram users, ie to post pictures of hobbies, lifestyle, work etc. This is the ONLY Instagram account he uses and he will not be messaging you from it. Notice the white tick in a blue sunburst shape next to his user name of faz3 - this means he has been verified by Instagram as the genuine person. Other fakes will try to mimic this check mark or won't include it at all. If it doesn't appear at all or doesn't look like the one here or is an account that is not called @faz3 then you know the account is not genuine and is manned by scammers.
DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OTHER ACCOUNT USING HIS IMAGES WHEN THEY TELL YOU THEY ARE THE REAL CROWN PRINCE.
They are not. They are scammers and will be looking to part you from your money. Please do not let yourself be sweet talked by all these scammers from Nigeria, West Africa and India. They do not love you, they are not coming for you, you are not going to be a member of the Royal Family in Dubai - it is all a load of rubbish to get your money. Stay smart and do not believe them. Report them on Instagram as impersonating a celebrity and include the real Instagram account @faz3 and hopefully Instagram will take down the fake accounts.
The question is here what are the scammers looking for? They are not usually looking for the normal requests like iTunes cards, Google Play cards or Amazon cards or technology or money to be sent for sick children etc. The usual scams are not at play here because even they realise that they are stupid requests from who is mean to be a Crown Prince. They will ask you for:
1. Money to become a member of the Royal Family in Dubai. They will send you documents, ID cards, membership cards etc as proof which in reality are all fakes and are not genuine. No-one pays to join the Royal Family in any country with a monarchy. The only way you can join the royal family as a full member is to marry into it and this is really not going to happen from a contact on social media is it?
2. They will ask you to make a donation to a charity that the Crown Prince supports or a charity that he is Patron of. Again false documents will be sent, links to websites that are fake may well be sent, links to websites of genuine charities may well be sent. However, the Crown Prince is not contacting women on Instagram or social media in general himself to send a donation. I am sure that there are staff for each of the charities he is genuinely involved with who are in charge of fundraising and that the Crown Prince is wheeled out to perform duties at events etc to encourage people to give generously. I mean ask yourself why would the next in line to throne in Dubai be messaging you to give money?? The answer is he isn't, scammers are. Give them money and you are donating to the scammers not the charity named.
It is simple really. Any person who contacts you on Instagram, Facebook, any social media, online dating or gaming platform on the internet and they say they are Crown Prince Hamdan is lying. The real Crown Prince is not contacting you scammers are. If you choose to believe them then that is up to you but they are not genuine. Believe the fake Hamdans at your own peril.
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