Hack personal Facebook to scam money transfer
On November 28, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court held a first-instance trial and sentenced the defendants Le Hai Long (36 years old) to 12 years in prison; Cao Tran Duy Han (24 years old) to 8 years in prison; Mai Nhat Minh (22 years old) to 3 years and 9 months in prison; Hoang Minh Quan (21 years old) to 3 years and 6 months in prison; and Nguyen Minh Duc (22 years old) to 6 years in prison, all for fraud and appropriation of property. The defendants hacked other people's Facebook accounts to appropriate money.
The defendants hacked Facebook to appropriate money from the victims, at the trial
The indictment determined that around May 2020, after serving a prison sentence in Quang Tri, Le Hai Long went to Ho Chi Minh City to invite Cao Tran Duy Han, Hoang Minh Quan, Mai Nhat Minh and Nguyen Minh Duc to participate in fraud to appropriate other people's property, and they all agreed.
Long discussed with the group to commit fraud and appropriate other people's property by the following method: Long and Minh used email addresses [email protected] and [email protected] to log in and use computers to hack (appropriate) other people's Facebook accounts. This group also created fake invoices to transfer money using fake account numbers and used foreign phone numbers +1573038561 to contact and lure; created fake links to foreign money transfer sites; created fake websites of fast payment services with pre-made forms to ask victims to fill in login information including phone numbers, account numbers, passwords, and OTP codes to transfer money.
After obtaining information from Facebook users, Long and Minh gave it to Han and Quan to use Facebook accounts, hack and change login passwords, impersonate Facebook account owners to text friends and relatives of these people to ask them to transfer money to pay debts, buy goods, transfer money from abroad for charity or transfer money quickly through bank accounts and then appropriate the victims' money.
Embezzlement of 440 million dong
Specifically, at around 3:00 p.m. on June 12, 2020, Han used a Facebook account that was appropriated from someone else named "Do Dieu Linh", impersonating Linh to text Ms. Tran Thi Hong T. (27 years old, residing in Thu Duc City) with the content: "I still have 2 million VND to transfer, please transfer it to account number 12999907 Vo Thi Huynh Nhi for your child, I will send it back tomorrow morning, my account has just transferred 100 million so the transfer limit has expired". Ms. T. thought it was real so she used her account number to transfer 2 million VND to the account numbers of the above defendants.
Similarly, on June 26, 2020, Cao Tran Duy Han used a computer to log into a Facebook account named "Thuy Nguyen". Through information, Han knew that this person was living in the US, was a friend of the person with the Facebook nick "Tuyetanh" (Nguyen Thi Tuyet A., 57 years old, residing in Ward 4, Go Vap District). Han sent a message impersonating "Thuy Nguyen" asking to transfer 5 million VND to charity for orphans, and Ms. Tuyet A. agreed. Han asked Ms. A. to log into the website created by this group and follow the instructions to provide the username, password, and OTP code to confirm the money transfer. After that, Long backed up and obtained Ms. Tuyet A.'s account information, password, and OTP code, then used her mobile phone to log into the internet banking page to transfer 200 million VND from Ms. Tuyet A. to the pre-created account to appropriate 200 million VND.
In addition to the two cases above, the defendants also hacked Facebook and defrauded many other people with the victims transferring money ranging from 300,000 VND to tens of millions of VND.
The investigation results determined that from the end of May 2020 to June 2020, using the Facebook hacking method, Long's group took over the login rights of over 40 Facebook accounts of individuals. The total amount of money taken from the victims was about 440 million VND. However, the investigation agency was only able to work with 6 victims with the amount of money taken was 329 million VND.
In this case, Long was accused of being the mastermind and leader. In court, defendant Long pleaded innocent, denied all crimes as charged in the indictment and claimed that he did not embezzle money. The remaining defendants all admitted to the crimes as charged in the indictment.
According to the panel of judges, the defendants’ actions directly infringed upon the legal ownership of property, negatively affecting social order and safety. In particular, the widespread online fraud situation has caused panic among the people. Defendant Long has two previous convictions, so a severe punishment is needed to serve as a deterrent.
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