Pretending to be a law enforcement agency, scammed nearly 4 billion dong with 1 phone call

On February 24, the Hanoi People's Procuracy said that it had just completed the indictment against two defendants Nguyen Dinh Van (26 years old, residing in Tu Ky district, Hai Duong province), Nguyen Manh Hien (25 years old). residing in Khoai Chau district, Hung Yen province) with the crime of "fraud to appropriate property".

Van and Hien are the two defendants in the case of impersonating officers of law enforcement agencies, impersonating the Hanoi Police Portal to defraud and appropriate billions of dong.

Previously, on August 28, 2019, the Investigation Police Agency of Hanoi City Police received a report from Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh H. (48 years old, residing in Long Bien District, Hanoi) accusing her of being a victim of a crime. The group made phone calls pretending to be law enforcement agencies, impersonating the Hanoi City Police Portal according to website: congan.hanoi113.com to fraudulently appropriate Ms. H. an amount of nearly 4 billion VND.

Through investigation, the police identified between May and September 2019, Nguyen Dinh Thanh (29 years old, living in the same village as Nguyen Dinh Van) and a person named Xoai (currently unidentified identity). ) made an agreement with Nguyen Dinh Van to open a bank account to sell to Thanh 1.5 million VND/account and sell to Mango 2.7 million VND/account at some banks registered with Internet banking, Mobile banking .

After opening the account, Van sent the account information, Internet banking and Mobile banking login password to Thanh and Xoai, and then transferred the registered phone sim cards to unknown people sent by Thanh and Xoai to receive them. .

Van opened 3 bank accounts and sold to Thanh for 4.5 million VND and hired many people to open 70 different accounts and was paid 189 million VND by Mango.

Van paid the tenants and opened a bank account, and introduced Thanh an amount of nearly 120 million VND.

Van hired Nguyen Manh Hien to open 3 accounts at Saigon Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SCB), Vietnam Import-Export Joint Stock Commercial (Eximbank), Military Joint Stock Commercial Bank (MB Bank) and paid for Hien 3 million dong, Van benefited more than 66 million dong.

According to the prosecutor's office, the behavior of Van and Hien helped the group of impersonators, fraudulent phone calls. That act of the accused has the role of accomplices Fraud to appropriate property. Van and Hien confessed that although they did not have the need to use a bank account, they saw high benefits, were aware that Thanh and Xoai hired to open many accounts to commit crimes, but still agreed to help these two people cheat. the island took possession of the property.

Specifically, at 8:00 am on August 6, 2019, the subjects in Mango's group pretended to be representatives of law enforcement agencies to call Ms. H. saying that they were related to crimes. They threatened and forced Ms. H. to deposit money into accounts provided by the Mango group.

At about 10:00 on the same day, Ms. H. went to the bank to transfer the amount of VND 3.8 billion to the account number at SCB named Nguyen Manh Hien and transferred the amount of VND 172 million to some other accounts opened at SCB. MB Bank. At about 11:20 a.m. on the same day, the defendants tried to disperse the money in these two accounts into different accounts.

Seeing that there were many suspicious transactions from an account named Nguyen Manh Hien, SCB blocked this account. Mango asked Van and Hien to go to the bank to withdraw all the money of more than 3 billion VND in Hien's account. After that, Hien was divided 8 million VND, Van benefited 43.5 million VND.

The Procuracy determined that Van and Hien had colluded with Mango to appropriate Mrs. H. an amount of nearly 4 billion VND. The total amount Van benefited illegally was more than 114 million VND, Hien benefited 11 million VND.

For Nguyen Dinh Thanh and the subject named Xoai, the investigation agency verified at his residence, but Thanh was not present, the family did not know where Thanh was going or what he was doing. The investigating agency has not yet clarified the identity and background of Mango, so it has decided to separate the documents related to the behavior of these two people, when there are enough grounds, it will be processed later.

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