Accordingly, the subjects' tricks are to take advantage of livestream sales sessions to collect information through customers' public comments or search for and buy and sell customer information from unofficial sources.

Next, they pretend to be shippers of reputable shipping companies to call the victims, notify them of orders that need to be delivered, and request a transfer of money to pay upon receipt of the goods.

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Thu Duc City Police warn of the trick of impersonating shippers to defraud and appropriate property. Photo: Provided by the Police

If the customer is at home and says they will come to receive the goods, the subjects will arrive in 5-10 minutes, but then cut off contact and block the phone number.

In case the victim was not at home, the subject said he had sent the goods to a security guard, acquaintance, or neighbor and asked the victim to transfer money to pay for the order.

The scam did not stop there. After the victim successfully transferred the money, the subject immediately informed that the wrong account number of the shipper member had been sent, so every month the victim's account would be deducted a certain amount of money or the victim's item would be recalled.

They lure the victim, in order to get back the money they transferred to buy the goods before, to enter the link provided by the subject. When the victim clicks on this link, another subject will guide the steps to log in via the banking app.

From there, the victim's bank information was stolen and all the money in the account was stolen.

Based on the clarification of the above sophisticated fraud tricks, the police have issued recommendations for people to be vigilant and avoid them.

That is, do not accept any orders that you do not place.

Do not transfer or pay for orders without a clear photo of the shipping code or recipient information.

Never log in to links sent by strangers to avoid falling into scams.

When detecting any unusual signs, the transaction must be stopped immediately and reported to the nearest local police for timely handling in accordance with the law.

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