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Coronavirus crisis provides fertile ground for online fraudsters | Financial Times
By Camilla Hodgson on May 25, 2020
After his usual supplier of medical equipment suffered delays as the coronavirus crisis took hold in March, Ali AlDakkak searched online and found a Malaysia-based company which said it could fulfil his order.The director of a United Arab Emirates-based group that supplies personal protective equipment to hospitals in the region, he paid more than $30,000 upfront for a large consignment of face masks. They never arrived.[…]
