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Your Tabby balance now shows up when you apply for a mortgage
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| The Etihad Credit Bureau started feeding buy-now-pay-later data from Tabby and Tamara into UAE credit reports in July, and it isn't only new purchases. Existing customers and old transactions came with it. So the sofa you split into four payments now sits in the same file a mortgage or car-loan underwriter reads. Pay on time and it quietly builds your record. Miss one you'd filed under "not really debt" and that shows up too. A score check runs Dh10.50 and the full report Dh84 at etihadbureau.ae, the score itself sits on a 300 to 900 scale, and fixing an error costs nothing, with the lender given seven working days to answer. |
| 2No federal officer will put you on a Google Meet, whatever the badge says | | Dubai Police's anti-fraud team keeps warning about cloned sites and fake ads, and the version worth knowing opens with a video call rather than a text. Someone presenting as a federal officer books a Google Meet, runs what looks like an official check, then sends a link to a copied ICP Smart Services page asking for an OTP or your Emirates ID. The call is the trick. A face on a screen reads as real in a way an SMS never does, which is why people who'd bin the same request by text will sit there and read out the code. Dubai Police put the defence plainly: don't hand over card details, Emirates ID or an OTP to anyone who called you, whatever body they say they are from, and check through the official ICP channels yourself before you act on anything said on that call. If you get one, ecrimehub.gov.ae takes the report, or dial 901. |
| 3Dubai Police impounded 497 cars over unpaid fines, some owing tens of thousands | | Dubai Police seized 497 vehicles in the first half of 2026 over unpaid fines and expired registrations, said Brig Juma Salem bin Suwaidan of the General Department of Traffic, with some cars carrying fines in the tens of thousands of dirhams and several unregistered for years. Owners get phone, SMS and email warnings before any legal step, and number-plate tracking finds the cars on the road and in car parks. Driving on lapsed registration is the sharper risk, because the car may have skipped its safety inspection. Worth a five-minute check of your own record before the school run puts everyone back on the road Monday. If fines have stacked up, just know that spreading them over an instalment plan isn't invisible any more, for the reason in item one. |
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