Prosecuted a group of people who swindled and appropriated more than 10 billion VND online

On July 4, Bac Ninh Provincial Police announced: The Investigation Police Agency, Bac Ninh Provincial Police has successfully solved a case, issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute a group of 4 subjects for the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" under Article 174 of the Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017) through the form of unauthorized access to the accounts of Binance application users. This decision has been approved by the People's Procuracy of the same level.

The subjects include: Nguyen Duc Hung, 25 years old, in Nghia Dan district, Nghe An province; Hoang Dinh Tai, 27 years old, in Nghia Dan district, Nghe An province; Nguyen Phung Hoang, 22 years old, in Thanh Chuong district, Nghe An province and Nguyen Anh Tuan, 26 years old, in Nhu Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province.

Through the work of grasping the situation and proactively implementing working measures, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Bac Ninh Provincial Police discovered that the account "HOANG_COIN_247" showed signs of fraud, illegally accessing accounts to appropriate assets of Binance application users.

Conducting verification and investigation, the police identified the mastermind and leader as Nguyen Duc Hung. In the initial investigation, the police clarified: Nguyen Duc Hung learned how to illegally access users' accounts on the Binance.com cryptocurrency exchange on social networks, then bought Binance accounts, attached phone numbers (scrap SIMs) as a means of contact and set up a link with a bank account (not the owner's) as a payment method. After completing this account, Hung's group accessed the website: Binance.com, placed an order to buy a certain amount of cryptocurrency (USDT) and quickly offered it for sale on this exchange at a cheap price to attract buyers.

When someone buys USDT that Hung sells, Hung sends a message without confirming the USDT transfer order code, making the buyer mistakenly think that the transaction is an error. From there, he asks the buyer to scan the QR code provided by Hung to support the manual USDT transfer order setting. When the buyer clicks on the QR account, Hung's group immediately takes control of the account, withdraws all the cryptocurrency in the account's wallet, and places an order to sell all of that USDT.

With the above tricks, the subjects initially confessed that from the beginning of 2024 until now, they have successfully carried out more than 50 cases, appropriating about 10 billion VND from many victims in provinces and cities nationwide, including 1 victim in Bac Ninh province. The appropriated money was used by the subjects to deposit to buy cars, top up games and for personal expenses.

As a result of the inspection and search, the authorities seized 6 mobile phones; 4 laptops; 3 USBs; 130,000,000 VND in cash and 37 bank accounts of various types. 1 bank account was frozen, and car sales transactions with a total amount of more than 1 billion VND were temporarily suspended.

The case is currently under investigation. Through the incident, the Bac Ninh Provincial Police force recommends that people be vigilant, do not access strange links; do not install software on their own; do not transfer money via QR code or activate according to instructions from strangers to avoid being taken advantage of and defrauded of property.

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