Quang Ninh: Receiving a call from a shipper, a woman lost 500 million

Tuyết NgọcJan 15, 2025 at 19:34

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Fraud from impersonating shippers is becoming more and more sophisticated, causing people to fall into a spiral of losing money without even knowing it. A woman in Quang Ninh also lost more than 500 million because she believed the bad guys.

The Criminal Police Department, Quang Ninh Provincial Police, said that it had recently received a complaint from Ms. S (victim's name has been changed), born in 1991, residing in Quang Yen town, Quang Ninh province, about a subject impersonating a shipper who defrauded her of more than 500 million VND.

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Accordingly, at the end of December 2024, Ms. S. received a call from the phone number 0353709963, introducing herself as Tai, working as a shipper and informing her that she had an order for acne medicine worth 260,000 VND. Trusting the subject, Ms. S. asked her mother-in-law, Ms. M., also residing in Quang Yen town, to transfer the above amount to an account named Nguyen Van Dat provided by the subject.

Two days later, Tai called Ms. S. to inform her that he had mistakenly sent the account number of the Saving Delivery Company. The amount of 260,000 VND that the woman transferred was considered the membership registration fee, so Tai was suspended from work for 1 week and asked her to help him cancel his membership card.

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Immediately afterwards, a subject claiming to be the warehouse owner contacted Ms. S. to ask about the incident and then instructed her to complete the procedure to cancel her membership card. The subject used many tricks such as asking to pay a fine, asking to deposit a security deposit, notifying the woman of the money transfer syntax to ask the woman to transfer money to many accounts with a total of more than 500 million VND and then appropriated the above amount. When she realized she had been scammed, Ms. S. went to the Criminal Police Department of Quang Ninh Provincial Police to report.

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According to Quang Ninh Provincial Police, impersonating delivery staff to defraud and appropriate property is not a new trick, however, many people due to lack of vigilance have become victims of these subjects, in many cases they have been defrauded and appropriated a huge amount of money.

As the Lunar New Year 2025 approaches, it is predicted that this type of crime will continue to have complicated developments. Quang Ninh Provincial Police recommends that people in the province need to be more vigilant against this type of fraud. When discovering that they have been scammed using the above mentioned method, people need to stay calm, not continue to follow the requests of the subjects and at the same time notify the nearest Police Department for instructions on how to handle the situation according to regulations.

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Previously, reporting to Tuoi Tre, Ms. Bao Dung (HCMC) said that she also encountered a case of impersonating a shipper to scam with an extremely sophisticated scenario. She said that while she was working, she received a call from a strange number, the caller claimed to be a shipper informing her of an order worth 260,000 VND that she had placed on an e-commerce platform.

Because she couldn't remember whether she had placed the order or not due to her habit of surfing the internet and shopping on livestream, Ms. Dung transferred the money after the shipper said it had to be received urgently. However, as soon as the transfer was completed, the shipper called to inform her that she had transferred the money to the wrong insurance company account.

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This person asked her to transfer the money back if she did not want to activate the insurance package worth 2.9 million VND. In addition, they also sent a strange link for her to contact the "insurance service center" to cancel the insurance package. Suspicious, Ms. Dung contacted the bank and was confirmed that this was a familiar scam.

Similarly, Ms. Huyen Tran (Binh Thanh District) also fell into the trap when she received a call from a shipper informing her of an order worth 350,000 VND. During working hours, Ms. Huyen Tran said the shipper kept texting her, urging her to transfer money so they could deliver the goods on time.

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Thinking that it was a familiar order, Huyen Tran quickly transferred the money. Just a few minutes later, the shipper called again, asking her to access the link to get support for a refund because the money had been transferred to the wrong account. Suspicious, she looked it up on the e-commerce platform but could not find any orders. When she called the shipper, her phone number was blocked. The money that had been transferred could not be retrieved.

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