GĐXH - The man refused to return 3.5 billion VND received from a strange account despite receiving repeated calls from people claiming to be police and bank officers demanding the money back.
One afternoon in mid-July 2024, a man surnamed Tai, living in Chongming District, Shanghai, China, panicked and ran to the police station for help. Just 1 hour earlier, Mr. Tai had transferred 1 million yuan (about 3.5 billion VND) to his friend to deposit for a house. But in a moment of carelessness, he entered the wrong account number and transferred the entire large sum of money to a stranger.
Mr. Thai repeatedly emphasized his carelessness and hoped that the police could help him recover the money he had mistakenly transferred as soon as possible. After all, this was not a small amount of money. Especially for a person who had saved money to buy a house like Mr. Thai, this was a huge number that affected his important future plans.
According to Mr. Thai, the person who received the mistaken money transfer was a worker he had previously hired. He only remembered transferring money to that worker once, after which the bank's payment app automatically saved the worker's name and account information. As time passed, Mr. Thai's memory of this person became quite vague, and he couldn't even remember the other person's face. But because that worker and Mr. Thai's friend both had the same last name Tu, he immediately clicked on the name that started with "Tu" without paying close attention.
After Mr. Thai transferred the money, he waited for a long time but still did not receive a message from his friend saying that he had received it, so Mr. Thai started to worry a little. He called his friend many times to ask, but the other side still did not receive any money. Mr. Thai quickly went back to the payment app to check his account and discovered that he had transferred money to the wrong person. At that time, he was shocked and rushed to the police station.
Because he had only hired the worker surnamed Xu once, Mr. Tai had no way to contact him directly. Upon receiving Mr. Tai’s report, the Chongming District Police took immediate action, quickly establishing a coordination mechanism with the bank and conducting a detailed investigation into the mistaken money transfer. After tireless efforts, the police finally contacted Mr. Xu, the account holder who received the 1 million yuan (about 3.5 billion VND) from Mr. Tai.
However, Mr. Xu was not in Shanghai at the time and had returned to his hometown in another province. When he received a phone call from the police, Mr. Xu immediately refused and said that he had not received any money. Despite repeated attempts by the police and the bank to contact him, Mr. Xu remained uncooperative, even saying that even if he received the money, he would not transfer it back.
The police insisted that it was right to do so.
In fact, when he received a call from strangers claiming to be police and a bank in Shanghai, Mr. Xu immediately "turned on alert mode". He could not believe that there was an additional 1 million yuan in his account and thought that this was a new trick of the scammers. When he opened his account and saw that the balance had indeed been added to 1 million yuan, Mr. Xu still did not agree to return it to its owner immediately. He cautiously stated that he would wait for the local police to come to his house to verify the situation before considering whether to return the money.
Faced with Mr. Xu’s suspicions, the Shanghai police contacted the local police station where Mr. Xu lived and asked for assistance. With close coordination between the two places, the local police quickly went to his home and explained the whole incident in detail to Mr. Xu. After verifying and viewing Mr. Cai’s mistaken transfer receipt, Mr. Xu finally believed that the large sum of money had indeed been mistakenly transferred into his account by someone else.
Finally, Mr. Tu and the local police went to the bank together to return the 1 million yuan (about 3.5 billion VND) to Mr. Thai intact. At the same time, the police also praised Mr. Tu for his high vigilance and awareness of fraud prevention.
Through the incident, the authorities and banks also reminded people to double-check information carefully before transferring money, to avoid similar problems. In addition, when receiving a phone call from a stranger asking to transfer money, everyone should verify carefully like Mr. Tu before sending it back. In addition to Mr. Thai's case, there are many cases of mistaken transfers but it is difficult to get it back, because the other party is a stranger and cannot be contacted, or intentionally misappropriates it.
Source: https://giadinh.suckhoedoisong.vn/nguoi-dan-ong-nhan-35-ty-dong-chuyen-khoan-nham-nhung-nhat-quyet-khong-tra-lai-hanh-dong-kho-hieu-lai-duoc-canh-sat-tuyen-duong-172250303105912132.htm
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