One arrested in Matrouh over a fake drug-sales page that took buyers' money
Egypt's cybercrime police arrested a fuel-station attendant who ran a social-media page offering drugs for sale, in El Hammam district of Matrouh Governorate. Officers found no drugs at all: police say he took buyers' money transfers and then switched off his phone, and he confessed to fraud.
🇪🇬 El Hammam police district, Matrouh Governorate · Egypt
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Arrested
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General Administration for Combating Information Technology Crimes, Public Security Sector
Egypt’s security services arrested a man in Matrouh Governorate for running a
social-media page that promoted drug sales for money.[1]The General
Administration for Combating Information Technology Crimes, part of the
communications and information technology sector, spotted the page together with
the Public Security sector.[1]Investigations identified the page’s
administrator as a fuel-station attendant with criminal information who lives in
the El Hammam police district of Matrouh.[1]
Three accounts say the man held no drugs at all when he was arrested.[2]Officers found a mobile phone with him, and an examination showed it held
evidence confirming his criminal activity.[1]Faced with the findings, the man
confessed to creating and running the page to defraud people who wanted to buy
drugs, asking them to transfer money to him and then switching off his phone.[3]
Police took the necessary legal measures in the case.[1]
Case data
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Arrested
1
Agencies
General Administration for Combating Information Technology Crimes; Public Security Sector
No source names the substance or substances advertised on the page, so no cannabis product is recorded; the case is a suspected online fraud offering drugs that were never delivered.
The records end at the arrest and legal measures: no charge, no referral to the prosecution and no court outcome appear in any account.
The accounts give no separate date for the arrest; the Interior Ministry statement was published, and the first reports appeared, on 4 November 2026, which stands in as the incident date.
The suspect was not named and no age was given; the only description is a fuel-station attendant (مراقب) with prior criminal information living in the El Hammam police district.
No source states how many people paid money, how much was transferred or whether any of it was recovered.
No Interior Ministry page for this case could be opened, so the ministry's wording was read through the two newspaper republications.
Security agencies in El-Khusus, Qalyubia, detained 11 people in a campaign launched after social-media posts about drug dealing. Officers said the suspects were carrying hashish together with heroin, ice and powdered drugs.
Cairo detectives arrested two unemployed men in El-Marg with 37 slabs of hashish, a shotgun and cartridges after a tip that they were distributing the drug. The two admitted holding the hashish to sell it.
Luxor police arrested four men accused of stealing motorcycles and hiding them in Al-Zanaqta, recovering five bikes. Officers also seized hashish of unstated weight and half a kilogram of shabu, and prosecutors ordered the suspects held for four days.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns tested 1,045 drivers in 24 hours and 44 were positive for narcotics use, with no substance named. A parallel campaign on work zones along the Regional Ring Road tested 156 drivers, reported seven positives and detained seven people wanted under nine court rulings.