Many tricks
Accordingly, from the end of 2022 to present, the Provincial Police have received more than 50 cases of fraud and property appropriation on cyberspace with a total property loss of over 20 billion VND, the lowest amount of money appropriated was over 3 million VND, the highest was over 3 billion VND.
Common forms of property fraud include: Impersonating law enforcement agencies such as the Police, the Procuracy, or the Court, calling the victim, claiming to be involved in a case under investigation, and requesting them to open a bank account to transfer money to the subject for investigation and clarification. The scammer goes online to get acquainted, introduces himself as a businessman or soldier abroad, then sends money and valuable gifts to Vietnam, then impersonates an airport employee, asking the victim to pay taxes and fees to appropriate.
The scammer pretends to be a foreigner who wants to transfer money to Vietnam for charity, offering a 30%-40% "bait" to the victim if they agree to cooperate, then pretends to be an airport customs officer and asks for taxes and fees to appropriate the money.
They also pretend to be supermarket employees to inform victims of promotions, gifts, and prizes, but to receive gifts and prizes, they must pay a fee, and then appropriate the money.
Or like the trick of lending money through online apps, when the victim registers for a loan, the scammers inform the victim that the profile is incorrect and ask the victim to transfer money so they can correct the profile to appropriate it.
Another scam is in the form of “finding people to work from home” by selling online. The victim wants to receive the product, they have to deposit, after the victim transfers the money, the scammers cut off contact. Similarly, a form of scamming the victim to become a sales collaborator through the lazada, shopee or strange applications. The scammers ask the victim to “transact” 1, 2 times with a small amount of money to get a refund and benefit up to 40% to create trust. Then, they ask the victim to “transact” with a large amount of money, immediately they take it and cut off all contact.
Another trick of the scammers is to lure the victims to join the virtual trading floor. They lure them to join the private group, send them the link to pay online and ask the victims to transfer the deposit and then take all the money.
The scammers also have a trick of calling restaurants and eateries to book parties, and at the same time requesting a type of imported wine as specified by the subject (or other types of drinks that the restaurant does not have available). Then, when the restaurant calls the beverage supplier (actually a fake scam group) to transfer the deposit in advance (to receive high commission), the money is appropriated by them.
A fairly common scam in recent times is that bad guys hijack Facebook and Zalo accounts, or create fake accounts of people they know, then text to borrow money. The subject uses editing software when calling directly to make the image look like a real person talking...
Gullible, lost more than 3 billion VND
Some recent fraud cases have been discovered, such as the case of Ms. LKH (residing in Ninh Phuoc quarter, Ninh Thanh ward, Tay Ninh city) who received a phone call from an unknown number. The caller was a man who claimed to be an officer of the Da Nang Police Department, informing Ms. H that she was involved in a drug case led by a subject named Phan Van Long, which the Da Nang Police were investigating. Subject Long confessed that he transferred 2 billion VND to Ms. H every month and asked her to cooperate with the investigation, otherwise she would be arrested. This person instructed Ms. H to open an account to deposit money to prove that she was not involved in the crime, after proving that Ms. H could withdraw the money she had deposited. Ms. H trusted him so she transferred the money specified by the subject many times to many different accounts with a total amount of 3,067,004,000 and was all appropriated.
Or another case is the case of a subject claiming to be Nguyen Thi Huyen Anh, an employee of Tan Son Nhat airport working in the baggage inspection department, calling Ms. L's phone number and asking if it was TTL living in Tan Thanh commune, Tan Chau district, Tay Ninh province. Ms. L answered yes. Subject Huyen Anh told Ms. L that there was a gift package from Taiwan sent to her, inside the gift package there was gold and US dollars and asked Ms. L to transfer 25 million VND to the account number specified by the subject to pay taxes. Ms. L trusted and transferred the money to the bank account as requested, but subject Huyen Anh continued to give many reasons and give very logical situations to gain Ms. L's trust and asked Ms. L to pay many other fees. Ms. L transferred money many times with a total amount of 736,760,000 and was misappropriated.
Through the social network Viber, Ms. VKT (residing in Thanh Binh C neighborhood, Go Dau town) made friends with a person with a Viber account named Dung Anh. On February 14, 2023, Dung Anh texted Ms. T saying that he had transferred 30,000 USD to Ms. T's bank account as a gift on the occasion of Valentine's Day, but because the transfer was made via international bank, it took Ms. T 7 days to receive the money. On February 17, 2023, Dung Anh told Ms. T that her child was sick and needed money urgently, so she asked Ms. T to transfer money to Dung Anh to borrow for her child's treatment, and Ms. T agreed. After that, Dung Anh asked Ms. T to transfer money many times to the accounts provided by Dung Anh with a total amount of 387,410,000 VND. On February 22, 2023, Ms. T told Dung Anh that she had not received 30,000 USD. Dung Anh asked Ms. T to transfer money so that he could create an international account for her, and then receive the money. After that, Ms. T continued to transfer 530,000,000 VND to account number 101871728194 of Vietinbank but still did not receive the money from Dung Anh. Because she suspected that she had been scammed, Ms. T went to Go Dau District Police to report the incident.
Ms. N (residing in Hamlet 4, Bau Don Commune, Go Dau District) received a phone call from a subject named Ngo Viet Anh, who claimed to be a Criminal Police officer, informing her that the victim N had an insurance file that had been paid for 29,850,000 VND. Ms. N said that she did not have any insurance payment file as Anh said. After that, another subject named Le Viet Xuan, who claimed to be an officer of the Procuracy, called Ms. N, saying that he would verify and clarify the insurance payment amount and said that Ms. N's bank account was related to a money laundering and drug trafficking ring, so Ms. N would be temporarily detained for 3 months.
This subject also threatened that if she wanted to prove that her account had no problem, she should transfer money to the account number sent by Xuan to resolve the issue. Because she was afraid of being arrested, Ms. N transferred 835,000,000 VND. After that, another subject named Nguyen Van Thang, who claimed to be an inspector, continued to say that if she wanted to prove that her account was "clean", Ms. N would have to transfer another 500 million VND. Ms. N replied that she had no money left, but Thang still called her many times to ask her to transfer money. Suspecting that she had been scammed, Ms. N went to the police station to report it.
An Khang
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