Dubai is a city that offers limitless opportunities to those with a hardworking and entrepreneurial spirit. However, you may also encounter ill-intentioned people in this glittering city.

Your friends' recommendations may not always be enough. You should be especially careful when purchasing services from people who are not affiliated with a company or whose license you have not seen.

How can you recognize unsafe services? First of all, their prices are far below market rates. They have a shoddy digital brochure labeled "Home Service". The phone number printed on the brochure redirects you to a different number. When you purchase the service, you either receive no invoice or they send you the image of an invalid one. Even if they deliver the service the first time to win you over, they become unreachable afterwards.

I would like to tell you about a recent incident on this subject. In our Turkish group with thousands of members, a massage package purchased by nearly two hundred people based on a recommendation turned out to be worthless. Although people paid their money in advance, they never received the service. They could find no one to turn to for their refund requests. The person in charge of this service, operating under the name Cuts Colours Beauty Saloon, was a woman named Reena. This person, who claimed to be in charge, did not even bother to reply to the messages sent to her.

What should you do when you face situations like these? You can turn to the complaint lines that protect consumer rights in Dubai. A few of them are: http://www.moec.gov.ae ; consumerringhts.ae; phone 800 1222, email.info@economy.ae. Collective complaints usually produce more effective results.

Protecting our rights as consumers is a duty we owe first to ourselves and then to society, so that other people are not harmed. Remember, your safety and satisfaction come before everything else.

Stay with love and confidence.