Group of scammers sent gifts, foreign currency, and appropriated nearly 100 billion VND

On February 14, Gia Lai Police said they had successfully dismantled a case that took advantage of cyberspace to commit fraud and appropriate property, with dozens of subjects at home and abroad colluding with each other through the trick of setting traps to receive gifts, foreign currency, and documents sent from abroad to Vietnam.

Previously, on November 20, based on the receipt of a complaint from Ms. HTS (residing in Thang Loi ward, Pleiku city, Gia Lai) denouncing subjects who took advantage of cyberspace to defraud and appropriate more than 18 billion VND, the Department of Cyber Security and Prevention of High-Tech Crime presided over and coordinated with professional departments of Gia Lai Provincial Police to establish a case.

Dozens of detectives were sent to Ho Chi Minh City, Ben Tre, Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Ba Ria - Vung Tau... to collect information, verify documents and evidence of criminal activities.

Police seized evidence related to online fraud case

Based on the collected documents, the Investigation Committee decided to solve the case, simultaneously searched the residences of many subjects, seized 2 laptops, 14 phones, more than 130 million VND, froze more than 40 bank accounts, collected many phone SIM cards, bank account cards and many related objects and documents...

Initially, Gia Lai Provincial Police clarified the subject who committed the fraud and appropriated more than 18 billion VND from the victim in Gia Lai; arrested and prosecuted 2 people, including 1 foreigner, for the acts of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and "Illegal collection, storage, exchange, purchase, sale, and publicization of information about bank accounts".

Major General Rah Lan Lam - Director of the Provincial Police Department commended and encouraged officers and soldiers who solved the case.

According to Gia Lai Provincial Police, using various social networks, the group posted pictures and articles pretending to be foreign doctors, businessmen, and engineers, then made friends, talked romantically with the victims, and "complained" that they were working in a difficult, war-torn area, currently had a lot of foreign currency and expensive jewelry and needed someone they trusted to keep them and receive documents to complete procedures for this person to return to Vietnam to live.

After agreeing, another group of people will pretend to be employees of international shipping companies, airport staff, customs officers, tax officers, and police officers to contact the victim and ask them to send various fees, taxes, fines, bribes, etc. before receiving a package containing a lot of foreign currency and documents sent from abroad.

Using the above tricks, this group of people carried out cross-border fraud, appropriating nearly 100 billion VND from many victims across the country.

Currently, the Investigation Committee is continuing to convene and work with many other related people, consolidating evidence documents to handle according to the provisions of law.

(Source: Tien Phong)

Source