Pham Thi Huyen Trang and her accomplices defrauded 1,000 billion VND from 13,000 people, causing many families to be broken. Before that, TikToker Mr Pips was arrested with 5,000 billion VND, or the CEO of Trieu Nu Cuoi Company, Tam Loc Phat Vang Anji...
Enough tricks to get money from victims
On January 24, Bac Ninh Provincial Police said that they had just coordinated with the functional departments of the Ministry of Public Security and provincial police to successfully dismantle a cross-border fraud ring using high technology, with sophisticated tricks, causing especially serious consequences.
This group of subjects operated in the Tam Thai Tu area (Ba Vet city, Svay Rieng province, Cambodia), impersonating ward-level police, district-level police, tax, electricity, and education officials to call victims and ask them to update their citizen identification information, submit online admission applications, have health check-ups, declare taxes, etc., then take over the phone and appropriate money in the victims' bank accounts.
Pham Thi Huyen Trang (26 years old, Hai Phong) was identified as a senior manager, responsible for developing fraud scenarios, training and coaching people in the fraud ring. From May 2024 to present, these people have appropriated nearly 1,000 billion VND from more than 13,000 victims nationwide.
Previously, there were many large-scale scams that caused people to lose money, such as: TikToker Mr Pips was arrested with 5,000 billion, or the CEO of Trieu Nu Cuoi Company, Tam Loc Phat Vang Anji...
TikToker Pho Duc Nam - also known as Mr Pips (30 years old, Ba Ria - Vung Tau) set up a fraud ring to appropriate assets, following the model of stock brokerage companies. This TikToker hid under the name of a company, a website operating in the field of telemarketing (marketing via phone), financial investment consulting, stock brokerage with many international stock codes such as: Facebook, Apple... to commit illegal acts.
Pho Duc Nam and his accomplices lured customers into private chat groups and invited them to join exchanges, advised them to place large orders, and used borrowed money to quickly burn their accounts, in order to continue to appropriate the victims' assets...
The police identified more than 2,600 victims nationwide, and froze assets estimated at more than VND5,200 billion, including nearly 1,000 SJC gold bars, 246 kg of solid gold, 31 supercars, hundreds of real estates...
At the end of 2024, the police agency also determined that the general director of Trieu Nu Cuoi Company had signs of fraud in selling virtual currency and earning 30 billion VND.
In mid-April 2024, the Hanoi Police Investigation Agency initiated a case and temporarily detained Ms. Nguyen Thi Khuyen, General Director of Tam Loc Phat Group Joint Stock Company, to investigate the act of fraud to appropriate assets, mobilize capital from thousands of investors and promise to pay high interest, then appropriate money worth thousands of billions of VND.
Tam Loc Phat has continuously organized events with the appearance of many famous artists, actors and comedy youtubers in Vietnam, and at the same time flaunted on the web the huge scale of the business, from TV channels, private film studios to gold, silver, precious stones and jewelry brands with the brand Anji...
In early 2024, Hanoi Police also uncovered the case of Sen Tai Thu mobilizing more than 1,000 billion VND at high interest rates even though the company had lost its ability to pay. The mobilization was carried out under the name of buying and selling shares. Sen Tai Thu offered a high committed interest rate, around 12%/year. Sen Tai Thu also mobilized money from later investors to pay earlier investors. In addition to the interest paid to investors, the company also paid a very large percentage of commission to the sales staff.
Hit the greed
In November 2023, the Investigation Police Agency of Cau Giay District Police, Hanoi City prosecuted and temporarily detained Ms. Pham My Hanh (1980), Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of My Hanh Group Joint Stock Company, for the crime of Fraudulent appropriation of property. Accordingly, Ms. Hanh provided false information about the Ngoc Linh ginseng investment project in many localities, mobilizing more than 1,200 billion VND from many individuals and then appropriating it.
In the case of Sen Tai Thu, the company raised a large amount of money probably from its high profits and reputation.
As for Ngoc Linh My Hanh ginseng or Tam Loc Phat, investors were probably deceived by the very high interest rates and the ostentatious, massive promotions in even mainstream newspapers, using images of famous artists...
Recently, some people have forged billionaire signatures and created websites similar to those of large corporations such as Vingroup, Hoa Phat, SSI Securities... with the lure of high interest rates and big benefits to scam people.
In recent years, the situation of luring and enticing people with money to invest in gold and international stocks has been very common. Many people receive several calls every day from employees introduced from famous securities companies to invite them to chat groups to advise on international stock investment. Many people have been scammed of huge sums of money when participating in trading floors, but then cannot withdraw their money.
It can be seen that in most scams, people are exploited due to ignorance and/or greed. And scammers are often highly educated and have the ability to understand the psychology of the victims.
Pho Duc Nam is considered a talent, has a very strong education, received a full scholarship from a university in Singapore, received specialized training in information technology, is fluent in foreign languages, has IELTS 8.5, and can communicate with foreigners without an interpreter.
Huyen Trang is known as a beautiful, talented girl who knows English, Korean, Chinese and has a sharp mind, but she became the brains of a fraud ring. With her ability, Trang created perfect, realistic scenarios, making people lose their guard and easily fall into traps. The scenarios play on people's psychology. She pretends to be the court, police, tax officers to intimidate and support to verify documents, install the application, and at the same time install malware on the victim's phone and take over the user's rights, then withdraw money.
The sophisticated scenarios that Pham Thi Huyen Trang created have trapped tens of thousands of people and also affected many people with scam calls that occur every day.
In cases of domestic fraud, the victim can claim back part of the money thanks to the remaining assets of the business/fraudster. But in cases of fraud carried out in cyberspace, across borders, many people are almost completely lost. Recently, a new scam "support to get money back" has appeared, which was appropriated by Tiktoker Mr Pips, aiming to appeal to the psychology of many people wanting to get back their scammed money.
Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/pham-thi-huyen-trang-lua-13-000-nguoi-nhung-kich-ban-nguoi-viet-mat-nghin-ty-2366981.html
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