Losing billions because of trusting "major general of the US army" and "fake" police

Trusting new foreign lovers, the "ladies" are furious when they are cheated of billions

Today, on March 17, Ho Chi Minh City Police said that it has issued a notice to search for witnesses who know about the "scams to appropriate property" cases in the area. In both cases, the victims were gullible "lads", so they easily fell into the trap of "US Army Major General" and "fake" police.

According to the investigation, in early May 2019, through social networks, NTH became acquainted with a man who called himself Jeffrey Buchanan and was a major general in the US Army. After many conversations, the two developed feelings of male and female. After that, "US Army Major General" said that he would go to Vietnam to visit Ms. H. so he asked her to write a letter of leave to send to the United Nations email box United-Nationorg@tom.com.

Believing in the lover of the US Army Major General, Ms. H. used her email to write a letter and send it according to Jeffrey Buchanan. Shortly after, Ms. H. received a request to pay 11,500 USD in insurance premiums, buy plane tickets, and book a hotel room for her "boyfriend".

Ms. H. transferred 267 million VND to the accounts of the subjects. After the transfer, Ms. H. suspected of being cheated, so she went to the police to report.

In addition to the above case, around 10 am on September 10, 2020, Ms. THM received a phone call from a man who introduced himself as a police officer. The police officer said that Ms. M. was involved in a drug and money laundering ring that the police were investigating. At the same time, the police issued an arrest warrant for Ms. M. to be detained.

Ms. M. said she was not involved, the police officer continued to threaten to serve the decision to arrest her. The police officer asked Ms. M. not to turn off her phone and make friends on Zalo with the name "Bui Hung Dung" to send her arrest warrant for her to see. In addition, the police officer asked Ms. M. to transfer the money to her account for checking. If not, she will be returned to her.

Due to fear, Ms. M. transferred 1.4 billion VND to the bank account requested by the "officer". After that, Ms. M. suspected of being scammed, so she went to the police to report.

Ho Chi Minh City Police said that anyone who knows information about the user of the United-Nationorg@tom.com email box and the user of the Zalo account "Bui Hung Dung" should contact the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department. (address at 459 Tran Hung Dao Street, Cau Kho Ward, District 1) met with Mr. Phung Thanh Tron (phone number 0938909294) to provide information.

And yet, on March 13, according to reports, a few months ago through social media, Ms. H became acquainted with a foreigner named MayvvssR.Raut, a soldier stationed in Syria. Through the process of talking back and forth, Mrs. H and this man had feelings and promised to go to the future together.

At the beginning of March, the foreign lover announced to send Ms. H a gift box inside containing 700,000 USD, which is the money he saved and his pension. This person said, send it to Mrs. H to keep for her to prepare to go to Vietnam to settle down, then build a family with her.

On March 3, Ms. H received a phone call from a woman asking to confirm that she had a gift box sent from abroad. This person said that the gift box contained a large amount of foreign currency, so it was retained by the airport customs, asking Mrs. H to pay for the lining.

True news, Ms. H followed the instructions of the strange woman, 12 times transferred money to the bank accounts designated by this person, totaling 2.5 billion dong.

After that, Ms. H could not contact her foreign lover or the strange woman. Knowing that she had been cheated, Ms. H reported it to the police, providing her information and bank accounts to which she had transferred money.

Over the years, the Ministry of Public Security and the Public Security of the provinces have continuously warned about scams by phone and through social networks, but so far there are people who fall into traps and lose billions.

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