The "fake" police called the sca.m to meet the real police and the handling phase almost went underground

The website of Cao Bang Provincial Police has just reported on the case that Mr. VQ (Cao Bang Provincial Police Officer) was on duty when he received a call from an unknown number (0917,463.xxx), claiming to be an officer. the receiving and processing office of the Hanoi City Police.

The other en.d of the line called VQ to inform Mr. VQ that: Mr. Q's ID number was used to register the phone number 0937.052.xxx on March 9, at MobiFone, Hanoi. In addition, this person claiming to be the Hanoi police also said that the phone number in Mr. Q's name had made many calls to sell medical equipment and supplies, and then asked many people to transfer mone.y to occupy him. take property.

To create credibility, this person said he would transfer the call to the Hanoi City Police, for Mr. Q to talk to the officer handling the case. After transferring the phone, a man claiming to be an officer of the Hanoi Police Investigation Agency asked Mr. VQ to go to the Hanoi Police Department to report the case and if Mr. Q could not come, he would make a call. video for verification.

Then, the other en.d of the line asked Mr. Q to make friends through the app and video call with an officer named Le Hai Son. When making a video call, seeing Mr. VQ wearing a police uniform, the subject Le Hai Son was startled and exclaimed, "I was planning to chea.t a little, then I immediately met the police".

Knowing that the sca.m was unsuccessful, Son suddenly asked for help from Mr. Q.: "Help me". After that, Son said that he was locked up in Myanmar and was beaten by bad people every day, if he did not complete the target of "scam calling", so he did not remember the specific number of houses living in Vietnam. That hangs up.

Through the incident, Cao Bang Provincial Police said that this is a very sophisticated trick to chea.t mone.y. These subjects used other people's faces in police uniforms, sat in a room designed like a police agency and also prepared full nameplates and badges... They often informed the victi.m. are involved in serious cases and then request information for verification.

When the victi.m says he is innocent, they will ask for cooperation in the investigation by transferring mone.y to the account for this object to check. If it is not related to the case, they will return it and promise to keep the information confidential. As soon as they get the mone.y transferred by the victi.m, they will appropriate this mone.y and cut off communication.

According to Cao Bang Provincial Police, this sca.m is not new, but the police advise people to be more vigilant against fake police calls to get videos for the purpose of fraud and appropriation of property.

According to the statistics of the Department of Telecommunications, the Ministry of Information and Communications, in the past time, the situation of spam calls on the telecommunications network has been complicated and tends to increase, especially many calls with signs of fraud and fake messages have appeared. state agencies, organizations for the purpose of appropriating users' property.

According to experts from the Department of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications, in case the user calls back the "switchboard" number impersonating the subjects given and providing full personal information that the other party gives to technical support means "trapped".

Once the user's personal information is captured, the object immediately guides the next step such as performing the syntax to rename, change the owner of phone number information, and call redirection syntax. After taking over the right to receive calls, the scammer will log in to the e-wallet application, the user's social network account and declare that they forgot the login password, select the OTP code notification feature. From there, bad actors easily appropriate social network accounts and mone.y i.n bank accounts linked to e-wallets.

In addition, there are many forms of impersonation from subscribers that people receive at any time of the day. Most of the incoming calls are claiming to be officers or employees at a functional agency, business, post office or a certain product company, calls from abroad. When calling, after claiming the name, the subscriber said very quickly the reason.

It can be attributed to listeners who have been violated by law due to being entangled in a case of smuggling, banned substances, violating traffic laws... needing personal information and asking to pay mone.y to the account to handle. Many people when receiving such news were very surprised, expressed fear, even fear of affecting their honor, so they were gullible and gullible, transferring mone.y without finding out the cause, resulting in the loss of some mone.y. big mone.y.

More dangerous and sophisticated, many calls from messengers take avatars of relatives, fake calls from abroad, ask family members to send mone.y urgently to solve work. Many elderly parents, seeing their chil.d's avatar, were so worried that they transferred mone.y according to the instructions of the subjects until they lost tens or hundreds of millions of dong.

Expos.e the truth behind the beautiful gir.l Facebook, accept love through social networks Hoàng Phúc19:49:06 03/02/2024Although scams through social networks are not too strange and are warned often, many people still fall into the trap of criminals in times of being caught off guard.