This afternoon (June 28), the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department of Binh Phuoc Province Police said that the unit had just received a report from a woman about being scammed of more than 2 billion VND on cyberspace.

The victim in the incident was Ms. LHT (residing in Chon Thanh town, Binh Phuoc province).

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The police agency received Ms. T's report - Photo: CACC

According to Ms. T.'s complaint, on May 26, a Telegram social network account named "Hang HD Thuy" sent a friend request and texted her that there was an online job to do at home, no service fee, no deposit required.

Ms. T.'s task was to listen to music on the Zing mp3 app, then vote for the singer and take a photo, and she would receive 35,000 VND/1 voting point. Seeing that it was easy to make money, Ms. T. agreed to participate.

Next, this person instructed Ms. T. to join a group on the social network Telegram to perform tasks by accessing a fake link to the Zing mp3 music listening application provided by the subjects.

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Messages from the subjects instructing Ms. T to do her duty - Photo: CACC

After that, Ms. T. was instructed to use her Telegram account to make friends with an "expert" named Nguyen Duy Hai to be guided in the voting task. With a deposit of 200,000 VND, Ms. T. will receive 80,000 VND/1 voting point. After completing all the tasks, Ms. T. will be transferred back the deposit she paid.

On June 12, Ms. T. was informed by the subject to join the "Zing mp3 Voting Group" and instructed her to sign a commitment contract to receive a profit of 40%-50%.

After that, Ms. T. participated in the task "Vote 1" and went to the link (sent by the subject on the group) to vote for singer MT.

To get 50 voting points, Ms. T. had to pay a deposit of 5 million VND (this amount, the subject said, would be returned after completing the task). Because she wanted to enjoy more profits, Ms. T. continuously participated in tasks 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 with increasingly large deposits, so the bonus points also gradually increased to 850 points, corresponding to the amount of money received of 127 million VND.

With the above form, Ms. T. transferred 19 times with the amount of more than 2.3 billion VND into the account provided by the subject. When Ms. T. wanted to withdraw the principal and interest, the subjects gave many reasons to refuse to return the money deposited into the system.

Suspecting being scammed, the victim went to the police to report.