Listening to a mysterious phone call, the woman lost nearly 200 million dong

A woman in Hanoi has lost nearly 200 million VND after hearing a mysterious call. This subject impersonated a police officer and asked her to transfer money to serve the investigation.

Recently, the situation of fraud on social networks has become increasingly painful when many victims in turn are "trapped".

The police of Long Bien district (Hanoi) are verifying and investigating the case of impersonating a police officer, fraudulently appropriating property with an amount of nearly 200 million VND.

Accordingly, on July 4, 2023, Thach Ban Ward Police received a report from Ms. P (SN 1951, residing in Long Bien, Hanoi) about the fact that Ms. P. had received a phone call from a partner. self-proclaimed police officer.

This subject said that Ms. P was involved in a drug trafficking ring and asked her to transfer money to serve the investigation. Due to fear, Mrs. P. transferred nearly 200 million VND to the subject's account.

This mysterious object immediately "disappeared" without any news. After discovering the problem, Ms. P and her family went to the police station to report.

In recent years, the crime of deceiving property in cyberspace has become very complicated with sophisticated methods and tricks. Many subjects have tried their best to find new ways to deceive victims to appropriate property. Most of the victims are people with low education such as workers, housewives or less follow social news and newspapers.

Many people have been scammed by "tricks" that are not new - they are asked to provide personal information, home addresses, instructions to install applications ... and transfer money to accounts accounts specified by the subjects. There are also many cases of scammers threatening victims related to the case being investigated and forcing "prey" to transfer money to appropriate, as in the case of Ms. P.

In the past time, although there have been many warnings about the tricks of impersonating a police agency to defraud and appropriate property, there are still people who fall into traps of the subjects.

To work with the people, the police agency will directly send invitations, summons or send papers through the local Public Security. The police also absolutely do not ask citizens to transfer money to bank accounts. When detecting cases of fraud as above, people should immediately report to the nearest police agency.

Police agencies across the country are also implementing all communication measures to ask people to be vigilant and propagate to relatives and friends about the above tricks, to avoid being trapped by bad actors.

In another case, on July 9, the H.Nam Dan Police (Nghe An) said that it had just issued a decision to prosecute the case and prosecute the accused against Mr. Manh Linh (24 years old, living in Nam Linh commune, H. Nam Dan), to investigate the fraudulent act of appropriating property. This behavior was carried out by Mr. Linh through social networking platforms.

Previously, H.Nam Dan Police received information that many people were scammed when buying goods online. These people order goods from a number of websites and then get scammed and take the deposit.

Through investigation, the police agency determined that Mr. Manh Linh had set up many social networking accounts on Facebook and We.chat platforms, pretending to be people of a company specializing in supplying and transporting goods from China to China. Vietnam to cheat selling cheap goods. When someone placed an order, Linh asked to transfer the deposit and then appropriated the victim's money.

H.Nam Dan police arrested Linh while this suspect was in Ho Chi Minh City, and seized many exhibits related to the case.

Initially, the police agency determined, from October 2022 until now, by the above method, Mr. Manh Linh has appropriated 470 million VND in deposits from many buyers in many localities in the country. The subject also admitted all his crimes.

Through the above cases, people should be more vigilant to avoid "losing money, carrying disabilities"!

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