Cyber fraud - a major social problem
For a long time, the problem of fraud in cyberspace has become a major social problem. It is worth mentioning that many individuals and organizations have arbitrarily used the prestigious image of major press agencies, taking advantage of the public's trust in national media agencies to commit fraud and property appropriation.
In recent days, on the social network Facebook, a fake Fanpage of the Tao Quan program of Vietnam Television continues to appear to recruit child actors. Accordingly, the Fanpage named "Searching for Child Faces to Participate in Tao Quan 2024" continuously posts announcements recruiting children aged 5-16 with acting ability to submit applications to be selected to participate in the Tao Quan 2024 program.
Fake fanpage of Vietnam Television's Tao Quan program to recruit child actors.
This Fanpage also offers many attractive benefits when children come to the program such as: "The child's salary when participating in the program is: 15,000,000 VND + % commission from the program's views and ratings after broadcasting", "becoming an official member of VTV - Vietnam Television Station, "regularly participating in jobs and TV shows organized and produced by VTV", "being given a full scholarship package at famous universities for acting". This Fanpage announced that the program Tao Quan Nhi 2024 will be broadcast on Vietnam Television on New Year's Eve.
Immediately after that, Vietnam Television confirmed that the content as announced on this Fanpage is completely incorrect. The unit responsible for producing the Tao Quan program, the Television Film Center (VFC), has no plans to recruit child actors as announced.
Recently, the VTV News hotline received many complaints from readers about the "Vietnam Ao Dai Charm 2023" contest with extremely sophisticated fraud tricks.
After the victim contacted the fanpage or texted the subjects who sent the invitation via Facebook and Zalo, the subjects claimed to be MCs and employees of Vietnam Television, ready to help the victim register and participate in the preliminary round through a Zalo group. These subjects also created fake accounts with profiles and photos of VTV MCs and editors.
Tricks to participate in the "Ao Dai Charm" contest impersonating VTV.
Here, victims are asked to participate in simple challenges such as liking VTV's fanpage, clicking on links... to tasks requiring payment transfers to buy products from "sponsors" and then being refunded. The subjects pay the full remuneration and capital several times to gain the victim's trust.
These subjects also frequently use the interface of VTV News to insert information about performing tasks, transferring money and receiving refunds to gain the trust of victims. The time to perform the task is also very limited, creating a psychological urge for victims to transfer money. Victims do not even realize they have been scammed until their accounts are depleted.
Social network users need to be extremely cautious of impersonators with similar recruitment invitations to avoid being scammed out of money, affecting the reputation of Vietnam Television in general and VTV News e-newspaper in particular.
It takes a stage, there is a certain delay to process.
Normally, when talking about Vietnam Television, many people will imagine a prestigious unit, all the information posted by Vietnam Television is highly trusted. Because of this, the subjects have thoroughly exploited it to make people easily listen to their methods and activities.
A series of websites and fanpages impersonating press agencies were announced by the Vietnam Fake News Processing Center.
Mr. Do Thanh Hai - Deputy General Director of Vietnam Television said, Vietnam Television is a key multimedia media agency, operating not for profit, we often organize playgrounds to attract audiences, thereby introducing the beauty of life, suitable cultural and artistic forms, but Vietnam Television never sets the goal of collecting fees or making payments or transfers.
It is known that from the beginning of 2023 to now, the Ministry of Information and Communications and relevant agencies have blocked 6,135 IP addresses, websites, and blogs that are malicious, fake, and violate the law; prevented and handled 5,998 IPs/IP ranges that show signs of or are being exploited to spread spam emails at the request of relevant agencies. In addition, the Vietnam Fake News Handling Center (Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information) has continuously reported on fake news from agencies, organizations, and individuals; and announced the impersonation of press agencies.
Speaking with reporters of the Journalist and Public Opinion Newspaper, Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Information and Communications) said that there are still cases of impersonating press agencies, although not many, but still often happen, with subjects impersonating state agencies and organizations, including press agencies.
In the past, the coordination between management agencies has been quite good. The Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information has worked with platforms to quickly stop news pages and fanpages that use the names of state agencies and newspapers without permission. Currently, we are implementing this very well on many platforms.
Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information, talked with reporters of the Journalists and Public Opinion Newspaper.
“However, creating an account and naming it is always easy, but when it is discovered, it takes a step to process, there is a delay in processing. Agencies that are impersonated after discovery need to promptly send information to the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information for processing. First of all, it is still the responsibility of that agency itself, that unit needs to know that its agency is being impersonated and faked. Currently, many press agencies after discovery have also sent it to us for processing, possibly through the channel of the Vietnam Fake News Processing Center for timely processing,” Mr. Le Quang Tu Do shared.
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