Recently, many people have reported receiving phone calls from shippers (delivery staff) informing them of receiving orders. If the customer is not present at the delivery location, the shipper says they will resend the item and request a payment transfer.
However, these are fake orders, the gullible person who transfers money will have the money taken by the impersonator shipper, even if the victim clicks on the link sent by the subject, they can have their phone taken over, lose money in their bank account...
The trick of impersonating shippers to defraud and appropriate property has flourished recently. (Illustration photo)
Being cheated because of fear of losing money
Lieutenant Colonel Phan Quang Vinh, Head of the Team for Prevention and Combating Property Crimes (PC02, Criminal Police Department - Hanoi City Police) said that impersonating shippers to call to deliver goods is a new scam.
“The subjects take advantage of online sales livestream sessions on social networking sites (TikTok, Shopee, Facebook...) to collect information about orders placed, including name, phone number, address, type of goods, amount to be paid... After about 1-2 days, the subjects will contact the buyer by the phone number they placed the order on,” said a representative of PC02 Department.
The method of the subjects is to contact during office hours when no one is home for delivery addresses that are private homes; outside office hours for delivery addresses that are offices, agencies, and workplaces.
Because online shopping is popular, happens frequently and is correct with the information ordered, people have a subjective mentality, trust and suggest leaving the goods and then transferring payment.
“At this time, the subjects send bank account information for people to transfer payment. After about 1-3 hours, the subjects contact and inform that they have sent the wrong account number to register for shipping staff. After transferring money, the staff will be automatically registered, money will be deducted every month, and then ask for instructions on how to cancel the registration,” Lieutenant Colonel Phan Quang Vinh pointed out the tricks of the scammers.
Lieutenant Colonel Phan Quang Vinh, Captain of the Team for Prevention and Combating Property Crimes (Criminal Police Department - Hanoi City Police).
Due to the fear of losing money unjustly, people will follow the requests and instructions of the subjects.
At this time, the bad guys will use other accounts to contact people via social networking applications (Zalo, Telegram, Viber...) and instruct them to cancel their registration by requesting money transfers to specified account numbers. After that, the subjects will use many reasons to inform the victims that the money transfer was incorrect, the account number was wrong, the syntax was incorrect... and ask them to do it again or transfer more money.
In addition, they also send fake website and application links asking victims to access and install the application, then take over the mobile device, and transfer all the money in the victim's account to another bank account to appropriate it.
Fraudsters often contact victims through "junk" phone numbers and social media accounts with avatars similar to those of shipping companies (Fast Delivery, Economical Delivery, Viettel Post, EMS) to take advantage of their victims' subjective psychology and gain their trust.
To avoid falling into the "trap" of fraud, people need to verify information related to orders and delivery services; absolutely do not leave personal information such as phone numbers, addresses... public on social networks; do not transfer money when not sure that the goods have been received; absolutely do not click on strange links, do not provide OTP codes to anyone.
People should not accept any orders that they did not order, and should not transfer money or pay for orders that do not have a clear photo of the shipping code or recipient information. When detecting any unusual signs, people should immediately stop the transaction and report to the authorities.
Difficult to trace
According to Lieutenant Colonel Phan Quang Vinh, high-tech fraud criminals are very "adaptive". These subjects update and change their tricks regularly, according to the political situation in the country, the world, and even follow-up events. Therefore, the key in preventing and fighting high-tech fraud crimes is the vigilance of the people.
Sharing about the problem of victims having their phones taken over through fake links and applications, the Captain said that this situation often occurs on phones running the Android operating system, because this operating system is "open".
After writing malware-containing software, the subjects will trick and lead the victims to install it on their computers through links. Preventing this trick is also extremely difficult, because the subjects only need to change one character for the link to "revive".
After taking control of the phone, the scammers will have software that can make multiple money transfers at once, from the victim's bank account to many different accounts.
It is worth noting that the beneficiary bank accounts are fake accounts, not owned by the actual owners, so tracing the source of the money is very difficult. In some cases, even though the source of the money was traced and the perpetrator was identified, the authorities still encountered many obstacles because the perpetrator was not in Vietnam.
In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Phan Quang Vinh also warned people to be cautious when investing in stocks, as many subjects intentionally create links and websites with interfaces similar to or ambiguous to official trading floors. From there, people transfer money with the purpose of trading stocks but in reality are depositing money into the accounts of scammers.
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