The case of calling parents to report that their children had an accident and were hospitalized to cheat money: Police urgent notice

After receiving feedback from teachers, the school reported the incident to the provincial Department of Education and Training, the ward police station and widely recommended to students and parents to raise their vigilance.

On March 10, talking to the People's Public Security newspaper, teacher Cao Xuan Ha - Principal of Phan Boi Chau High School (Pleiku City) informed: Recently, the school has received feedback from parents, teachers and students. students about having some people pretending to be school teachers to call parents whose children are studying at the school to inform them that they have an accident and are being treated at the hospital and ask to transfer money to their personal accounts. of the subjects to pay hospital fees.

However, when receiving the phone, the parents were alert and called the homeroom teacher to verify that there were no cases of students having accidents.

After receiving the teacher's feedback, the school reported the incident to the provincial Department of Education and Training, the ward police and widely recommended to students and parents to raise their vigilance so as not to be taken advantage of by the subjects. fraudulent behavior.

Accordingly, on March 9, Ms. D.TL, teacher of Literature group (Phan Boi Chau High School), and parents of T.Đ.AT (a student of 11th grade at Phan Boi Chau High School) received a call. From an unknown number, T. fell down the stairs and is currently receiving emergency treatment at the hospital and asks her to transfer 20 million VND to pay hospital fees.

After that, there was another subject claiming to be L., the PE teacher at Phan Boi Chau High School continued to call and talk to Ms. L. to guide her to transfer money. As a teacher at the school, when Ms. L. asked again: "Does the school have a teacher named L.?" The subject swore and hung up the phone.

Information from Gia Lai newspaper, a similar incident also happened on March 8. Specifically, parents of NTTN children (grade 11 students of Phan Boi Chau High School) also received a phone call claiming to be the school's teacher that N. had fallen down the stairs and was being treated at the 15th Army Hospital. However, with a spirit of vigilance, N.'s parents did not talk much with the subject and promptly reported the incident to the homeroom teacher and the school's management board.

In addition to the above two cases, the Board of Directors of Phan Boi Chau High School also received a complaint from NXP (grade 12) about being scammed by a bad object and asked to transfer money to his personal account. statue. However, thanks to the school's propaganda about the fraudulent acts of the bad guys, P. realized this trickery behavior, so he did not transfer the money and promptly reported it to the homeroom teacher.

This form of fraud has appeared in many provinces and cities across the country in recent years and many people have also been trapped by the objects.

On March 9, at a meeting to provide information on socio-economic issues and epidemic prevention and control in Ho Chi Minh City, related to the situation that many parents were tricked into transferring tens of thousands of dollars. up to hundreds of millions of dong when receiving information that his child had to be hospitalized for an emergency, Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha, Deputy Head of the Advisory Department, Ho Chi Minh City Public Security said, the trick of appropriating the properties of the subjects used is to impersonate hospital staff, teachers and related people saying that a student has an emergency accident, requesting an urgent transfer to pay for hospital fees.

According to Senior Lieutenant Colonel Le Manh Ha, the subjects split the roles to trick the parents in each case, some impersonating a teacher, someone playing the role of a doctor and other related people.

Therefore, the Ho Chi Minh City Police have coordinated with press agencies, radio and television stations to propagate about fraudulent tricks. The City Police also requested the Department of Education and Training to guide parents to be careful and selective when receiving and processing information. homeroom teacher.

According to a representative of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, as of March 9, the police had received 4 reports from media agencies and 3 denunciations from people about the above incident. In particular, on March 8, two parents in Cu Chi district were also scammed by phone calls and scammed with similar tricks. However, due to information capture through the press, the school should not transfer money.

Regarding the disclosure of information of parents and students, representatives of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department assessed that schools and State agencies have strict information management processes and regulations, and have security checks. and safe. Information, the number of parents may be exposed to problems related to security holes of other businesses. Another assumption is that corporate employees collect and resell customer personal data.

"When going to the amusement park, dining area, learning center, parents and students need to declare information to make a customer card or register. This also risks leaking information," said Colonel Le. Manh Ha cited evidence.

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