If you’ve been online today (Tuesday) then you’ve probably seen a myriad of news stories discussing the three men in Saudi who have been arrested for a scam that involved a known perfume brand and a Kuwaiti TV presenter.

On Monday, the Saudi Press Agency revealed (in a tweet) the faces of the three men: one from Saudi, Lebanon and India who pretended to be Saudi officials sending an extravagant gift to Kuwaiti presenter Halima Bouland.

(Image Credits: Instagram/ @halima.bouland)

It all started when Halima Bouland (who’s in Riyadh at the moment) shared a video on Snapchat

The TV presenter, Bouland, who has a good 3.5 million followers on Instagram shared a video on her Snapchat account of a seemingly extravagant gift. A box of perfume supposedly from the known brand Abdul Samad Al Qurashi worth SAR3 million was unveiled in the Snapchat videos, to a surprised Bouland who thanked the gifters.

A note over the gift box read out “To Halima Abdel Jaleel Bouland ….. “The most beautiful women in the universe should be a slave under your feet.”

People on social media immediately called out a couple of things they noticed in the video

Twitter went into a meltdown when Saudi tweeps discussed the SAR3 million price point of the present.

The above-mentioned perfume brand was then called out on social media by angry tweeps who due to the note that came with Bouland’s present.

Following this, the brand Al Qurashi released an official statement denying that they were in charge for the customisation of Bouland’s gift.

Following the spurt of social media attention that the perfume brand received, Saudi officials saw something in the video that was a little off…

The box’s lid, in the video, seemed to have had the Kingdom’s royal court symbol engraved on it. This then lead to the suspicion of the Saudi authorities who looked into the issue and proceeded to arresting the men behind the scam.

The perfumes were fake and were sent to the presenter under the royal courts to scam her, for the benefit of the mens’ personal intentions.

Other fake perfume boxes were found in the belongings of the men in the duration of the investigation process.