Although it has calmed down for a while, financial fraud through online transactions continues to recur, with increasingly sophisticated tricks. By taking advantage of new technology, scammers have used fake applications (Apps), then created real invoices or money transfer orders, thereby appropriating the victims' assets.
Mr. MC (residing in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City) said that recently his "VISA Signature" card account at a bank, with a limit of 500 million VND, was scammed by a scammer who made 54 online withdrawals, with many different transactions. "When I woke up in the morning, I was shocked to check my phone and found a message notifying me of many money transfer orders around 1am. Fortunately, when I contacted the bank, only 2 orders were successfully withdrawn by the scammer, the bank discovered the abnormality and temporarily put the above orders into suspended status" - Mr. MC said.
In the case of Ms. D.DL (67 years old, residing in Di An City (Binh Duong Province), temporarily residing in Ho Chi Minh City), she said that she recently lost all the money transferred via bank because she was lured into the trick of "consulting on selling products for bone and joint pain" through a website. According to Ms. DL, due to chronic bone and joint disease, she often watches advertising videos related to this incurable disease. When clicking on the link, the website displays fake data for "customers" to enter information (address, name, account number...) related to the "purchase". Due to not being tech-savvy and initially cautious, Ms. DL trusted and followed suit. After successfully transferring the money, the order "did not appear" even though she reloaded the initial login screen many times. Suspecting that she had been scammed, Ms. DL contacted the police to report the crime...
According to recent statistics from the Bank Card Association (under the Vietnam Banking Association), there are currently 24 sophisticated forms of fraud in card transactions and domestic payments, by impersonating applications to take control of devices (computers, mobile phones, etc.). Notably, many victims were scammed by Deepface, Deepvoice video calls or fake money transfer receipts; impersonating financial companies; installing applications, gambling and betting advertising links or fake websites; stealing social network accounts, sending fraudulent messages, etc.
Recently, many social network users have had their ID data and personal information stolen. After being scammed out of money, the victims were further scammed by online scammers to get their money back. With sophisticated online scams, some victims have lost large sums of money and ended up in a situation of "losing money and getting sick".
Sharing about the use of banking applications and fake money transfer invoices to defraud and appropriate property from many people, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Thang Long - Deputy Chief of Staff, Ho Chi Minh City Police said that in many cases, online scammers have tried to approach victims by running advertisements, spreading messages impersonating banks or impersonating bank employees to call victims. The police agency also encountered many difficulties when investigating when the scam scenarios were constantly changed by the subjects to deal with them. In particular, the commonly used scam scenarios were invitations to upgrade credit cards; borrow money online with easy procedures and low interest rates; notify bank accounts of suspicious transactions or pretend to be police instructing people to update biometrics...
Many people, when reporting to the police, said that they were lured by scammers, even psychologically manipulated, making the victims easily provide login information, passwords, OTP authentication codes... This is the information that online scammers use to withdraw real money from cardholders/banking apps. Many victims were also lured by the scammers to install fake banking applications on their smartphones. These applications contain malicious code, making it easy for the phone to be taken over. Then, information is stolen and the scammers remotely execute online money transfer orders to appropriate property.
Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Thang Long said that to avoid becoming a victim of online fraud, especially through banking applications, people need to pay attention to protecting personal information and data, and absolutely do not access links to websites of unknown origin. In addition, people should only install applications from official sources of the phone operating system (IOS Appstore; Android CH Play). When there are signs of suspicion, they must proactively coordinate with the bank (hotline) or the nearest competent authority to receive instructions on how to handle the situation according to regulations.
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