Currently, there are many virtual currency exchanges attracting many investors. The exchanges are introduced as projects with high interest rates, committed to paying profits to players.
At first, these exchanges will let investors make a profit, stimulating them to deposit more money. After that, they will advise their "prey" to deposit more money and then not let them withdraw money to seize it.
Recently, Hanoi City Police have repeatedly issued warnings about the fraudulent tricks of scammers when luring "prey" to participate in investing in virtual currency.
Virtual currency trading and investment in Vietnam is currently done through international exchanges.
Most recently, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Hanoi City Police, received a report from a woman about being robbed of more than 2 billion VND when investing in virtual currency such as Bitcoin.
Through an old friend's introduction, within just 2 days, this person deposited money into the ACO dol system and won 226,000 USD.
When wanting to withdraw money, the subjects ask the victims to deposit more money into the account with the reasons of "depositing verification money", "upgrading VIP account", "safe risky money"...
In total, the victim made 15 transactions and lost more than 2 billion VND.
Previously, Ba Vi District Police, Hanoi City received a report, investigated and verified a case of fraud and property appropriation of 750 million VND with the same method.
Accordingly, on March 12, Ms. H, born in 1986 and residing in Ba Vi, Hanoi, went on Facebook to look for a job. Seeing an account posting an article with the content "easy work, high salary", Ms. H contacted. After that, Ms. H was instructed to register an account to participate in investing in a virtual currency exchange that could earn a lot of profit.
Listening to the subject's enticement and enticement, Ms. H paid 100 million VND to place an order. Immediately, her account reported receiving 3.2 billion VND, but the system reported an error and did not allow withdrawal.
The subjects "enthusiastically" instructed Ms. H that she had to pay taxes, insurance fees, etc. before she could withdraw money. On March 17, when Ms. H had transferred more than 750 million VND to the subjects, she did not receive the above amount of money on the trading floor. At this time, Ms. H realized she had been scammed and went to the police to report it.
At the recent first quarter press conference of the Ministry of Justice, Deputy Director of the Department of Civil and Economic Law (Ministry of Justice) Cao Dang Vinh, said: The world still has many different concepts about virtual assets, digital currency, and cryptocurrency. Therefore, countries also have different approaches to this issue.
Assessing virtual assets and virtual currencies as potentially vulnerable to exploitation and appropriation, Mr. Vinh admitted that Vietnam does not have specific regulations and does not consider cryptocurrencies as a type of asset.
According to the Deputy Director of the Department of Civil and Economic Law (Ministry of Justice), the authorities need to soon develop a legal framework to manage virtual assets and virtual currencies as well as have regulations prohibiting risky behaviors or taking advantage of appropriating virtual currencies and virtual assets.
Currently, digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum... are considered popular virtual assets, but in Vietnam there is no specific definition of virtual currency and virtual assets. Transactions of buying, selling and exchanging virtual assets in Vietnam are currently carried out through international exchanges or direct agreements, which are potentially risky.
To prevent fraud, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Hanoi City Police Department recommends that people be vigilant when participating in financial investment through financial investment applications, international trading floors, digital currencies, websites, virtual currency investment applications advertised with high interest rates, with potential risks of fraud to protect themselves and avoid falling into financial traps.
When encountering cases with signs of fraud, people need to contact the police to quickly verify, prevent and handle violators according to the provisions of the law.
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