{"id":34801,"date":"2020-09-26T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/?p=34801"},"modified":"2020-09-26T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T14:04:05","slug":"the-faux-crown-prince-of-dubai-might-just-slide-into-your-dms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/news\/the-faux-crown-prince-of-dubai-might-just-slide-into-your-dms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Royal Scam: Beware The FAUX Crown Prince Of Dubai Might Just Slide Into Your DMs This Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Royal Scam: Beware The FAUX Crown Prince Of Dubai Might Just Slide Into Your DMs This Week!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*CATFISH ALERT!!!*<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you just chilling out, minding your own business when *PINGG* you get a notification reading that the Crown Prince of Dubai has just followed or privately messaged you.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like the dream eh? Well, that&#8217;s &#8216;zactly what&#8217;s been happening to a number of Dubai peeps and folks around the world, all of whom recently woke up to a follow request or a flirty DM from a social media account CLAIMING to be none other than Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai AKA Fazza.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, who doesn&#8217;t want to wake up to find a royal stalking them big time, BUT, unless you have just broken some record or broken a major LAW&#8230; it&#8217;s quite unlikely that Fazza would slide into your DMs for some LOLs. Ya&#8217;feel?<\/p>\n<h2>Beware the fake Crown Prince of Dubai sliding into your DMs and baiting you in for a &#8216;royal scam&#8217;!<\/h2>\n<p><!--infeed--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just got the coveted \u201cCrown Prince of Dubai \u201c follow. <br \/>Weird how he only has 1 follower. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7qouO8vmru\">pic.twitter.com\/7qouO8vmru<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Aquino \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2642\ufe0f (@DrJohnAquino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrJohnAquino\/status\/1307833981522645002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Dubai&#8217;s prince sure is humble&#8230; but we doubt sliding into DMs is his style of making a first impression<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh my, a prince from Dubai wants to chat!!! \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0wTwI8hOE0\">pic.twitter.com\/0wTwI8hOE0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lucianna Dykstra (@dykstralt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dykstralt\/status\/1309300195616677888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Fake Fazzas we see you. Who you tryna fool?!\ud83d\ude0f<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smule?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@smule<\/a> bots and scammers are a HUGE PROBLEM on this app. You need to start giving us the option to report bots\/scammers. I\u2019m tired of getting random messages from the prince of Dubai <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fKnM3zmbHA\">pic.twitter.com\/fKnM3zmbHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MaryIsOwning2024 (@BrandNew_Mary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandNew_Mary\/status\/1308365709957832704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Issa relief to see tweeps not falling for Faux Fazza&#8217;s tempting DMs&#8230; oh internet, you is WILDDD!<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmyBerz\/status\/1306965804940959755<\/p>\n<h2>FYI, for that 2% out there who don&#8217;t already know, this is what Sheikh Hamdan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HamdanMohammed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OFFICIAL Twitter account<\/a> looks like:<\/h2>\n<p>If you manage to get a follow from this account right here&#8230; then well thas as legit as it gets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Royal Scam: Beware The FAUX Crown Prince Of Dubai Might Just Slide Into Your DMs This Week! *CATFISH ALERT!!!* Imagine you just chilling out, minding your own business when *PINGG* you get a notification reading that the Crown Prince of Dubai has just followed or privately messaged you. 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Well, that&#8217;s &#8216;zactly what&#8217;s been happening to a number of Dubai peeps and folks around the world, all of whom recently woke up to a follow request or a flirty DM from a social media account CLAIMING to be none other than Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai AKA Fazza.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, who doesn&#8217;t want to wake up to find a royal stalking them big time, BUT, unless you have just broken some record or broken a major LAW&#8230; it&#8217;s quite unlikely that Fazza would slide into your DMs for some LOLs. 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Who you tryna fool?!\ud83d\ude0f<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"embed_block","embed_item":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smule?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@smule<\/a> bots and scammers are a HUGE PROBLEM on this app. You need to start giving us the option to report bots\/scammers. I\u2019m tired of getting random messages from the prince of Dubai <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fKnM3zmbHA\">pic.twitter.com\/fKnM3zmbHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MaryIsOwning2024 (@BrandNew_Mary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandNew_Mary\/status\/1308365709957832704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","content":"<h2>Issa relief to see tweeps not falling for Faux Fazza&#8217;s tempting DMs&#8230; oh internet, you is WILDDD!<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"embed_block","embed_item":"<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmyBerz\/status\/1306965804940959755<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","content":"<h2>FYI, for that 2% out there who don&#8217;t already know, this is what Sheikh Hamdan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HamdanMohammed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OFFICIAL Twitter account<\/a> looks like:<\/h2>\n<p>If you manage to get a follow from this account right here&#8230; then well thas as legit as it gets.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image_block","image":{"ID":34802,"id":34802,"title":"Screenshot 2020-09-26 at 1.58.45 PM","filename":"Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM.png","filesize":1,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM.png","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/news\/the-faux-crown-prince-of-dubai-might-just-slide-into-your-dms\/attachment\/screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1-58-45-pm\/","alt":"","author":"1822","description":"","caption":"","name":"screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1-58-45-pm","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":34801,"date":"2020-09-26 09:59:06","modified":"2020-09-26 09:59:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":786,"height":630,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM-small.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM-medium.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":240,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM-768x616.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":616,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM-large.png","large-width":786,"large-height":630,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM-786x630.png","1536x1536-width":786,"1536x1536-height":630,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM-786x630.png","2048x2048-width":786,"2048x2048-height":630,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM-230x184.png","small-width":120,"small-height":96,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2020\/09\/26135906\/Screenshot-2020-09-26-at-1.58.45-PM.png","custom-size-width":250,"custom-size-height":200}},"image_caption":""}],"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"video_thumbnail":false,"disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"legacy_meta_tags":"","episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":"","is_guest_user":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}