The woman lost 1 billion dong after a "mysterious" call

Recently, the situation of impersonating the police and State agencies to cheat and appropriate property through phone calls is becoming a "painful" problem. Although the trick is not new, many people are "trapped".
On July 17, the police of Dau Tieng district (Binh Duong province) informed that the Police Department of this district's police station had just received a report from a woman. It is known that she was scammed more than 1 billion dong after a "mysterious" call. The victim is Mrs. N. (living in Dau Tieng district, Binh Duong province).

Previously, on June 26, Ms. N. received a call from a strange phone number claiming to be the Procuratorate, Da Nang City Police. Objects pretending to inform Ms. N. related to a drug ring. This individual asked Ms. N. to provide a bank account for verification.

When knowing that the victim did not have a bank account, the target group guided Ms. N to a branch of a commercial bank in Dau Tieng district to open a new account. After opening an account, Ms. N provided OTP codes to the subjects. However, because Ms. N did not have money in her account, the subject instructed her to go to Ben Cat town, Binh Duong province to hold a "red book" to borrow money.

After having the money, from July 4 to July 8, Ms. N transferred to a newly opened account of more than 1 billion dong. A few days later, the subjects were not contacted, so Ms. N went to the bank to check her account and was shocked when she learned that all the money had been withdrawn. Knowing she was cheated, Ms. N went to the police station to report.

Currently, the Police Department of Dau Tieng District Police has transferred the file to the Criminal Police Department of Binh Duong Province for investigation according to its competence.

Another similar case, on July 4, the Long Bien District Police (Hanoi) said that it was verifying and investigating the case of impersonating a police officer, fraudulently appropriating property with an amount of nearly 200 USD. million dong.

It is known that the police of Thach Ban ward had previously 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 an object claiming to be a police officer. police.

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 the victims in order 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 directions, instructions to install applications ... and transfer money to accounts specified by the objects. 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.

Defrauding more than 600 million VND, the woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison Đình Thi18:40:30 14/07/2023The woman accused of defrauding more than 600 million VND has just been sentenced to 12 years in prison by the People's Court of Tra Vinh province. Based on trust, many other subjects also committed fraud, appropriating assets with amounts of up to many billions of dong.