This Dubai hotel doesn’t exist

After luring unsuspecting job-seekers with outlandish salaries using fake employment offers, conmen in Dubai are now targeting working academics and scholars from abroad. Their bait – an invitation to present papers in Dubai at an international conference on ending extreme poverty, reported media from Gulf.
But there is a problem. There is no such conference taking place anywhere in the city and the Dubai hotel where the foreign delegates are supposed to stay doesn’t exist.
In fact, the only presence it has is in the virtual world and XPRESS can reveal the Husniya International Hotel website has been created with pictures and content stolen from sites of popular Dubai hotels including a five star luxury retreat on the Palm.
Not just detailed sections on the hotel’s restaurant offerings, the portal – created earlier this month in Dakar, Senegal – even has photographs of guests enjoying sight-seeing tours across Dubai and top events like Sandance.