Tricks used in other scams

■ MMA group’s chief who was jailed in Dubai for fraud claimed his company’s ‘diversified’ portfolio included a heavy equipment industry and a private airline operating from Ras Al Khaimah airport. Fact is it neither had any industry nor any airline. ■

Globetrotting fraudster Gill Wallace

Hope tried to dupe UAE businesses in 2014 by projecting herself as adviser to the then US President Barack Obama. She even faked interviews with celeb TV host Larry King. ■ Convicted fraudster Russell King launched a bogus edition of the reputed Financial

Times to rake in millions of dollars in advertising revenue and barter deals from luxury retail brands and top hospitality groups in the UAE.