Saudi Arabia: CPA warns consumers against dealing with
Instagram accounts1
The Consumer Protection Association (CPA) is an association in
Saudi Arabia, that aims at protecting the consumer's interests;
safeguarding and defending consumer rights; representing consumers
before the public and private bodies; protecting him/her against
all kinds of adulteration, counterfeit, fraud, deceit,
falsification and exaggerated prices; and promote consumer
awareness and rationalized consumption.
In the wake of the increased number of online frauds, the CPA
has recently warned all consumers from engaging in commercial
transactions via the medium of Instagram, by giving a number of
reasons for such warnings. One of the main reasons is that the CPA
has received an increased number of complaints of fraud faced by
consumers for transactions that they carried out through the
Instagram application with respect to clothes and gowns, electronic
games, recharging cards and the Internet
