Two brothers impersonated network operators and bank employees to defraud hundreds of millions of dong.

Nam Dan District Police said: The unit has just issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecuting 2 defendants: Duong Van Tiep (born 1987), Duong Van Tu (born 1993), brothers, residing in Ky Anh District (Ha Tinh) for the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property", by impersonating network employees, bank employees to call many victims to appropriate 139 million VND.

Previously, in April 2021, Nam Dan District Police received a criminal complaint from Ms. D.TT, residing in Nam Anh Commune (Nam Dan) about a number of subjects using high technology to commit fraud and appropriate 89 million VND.

Two brothers Duong Van Tiep and Duong Van Tu. Photo: Duc Vu

During the verification, Nam Dan District Police established a special project to combat this type of crime. At 10:00 a.m. on May 13, 2021, Nam Dan District Police arrested two brothers, Duong Van Tiep (born in 1987) and Duong Van Tu (born in 1993), for the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property", urgently searched the subjects' residence, confiscated 17 million VND, 1 ATM card, 3 mobile phones.

At the investigation agency, the two subjects admitted to the crime. Accordingly, the two brothers Tiep and Tu used calls on the Internet platform, impersonating network employees and bank employees to call the victims to inform them of the results of the random drawing, then asked the victims to transfer money to their bank accounts to receive the prize.

With that trick, the subjects defrauded and appropriated 89 million VND from Ms. D.TT, residing in Nam Dan district.

During the investigation and expansion, the two subjects also confessed that from the beginning of March 2021 to mid-April 2021, with the above tricks, they defrauded many other victims residing in Son La, Tien Giang, Hung Yen, and Tay Ninh provinces to appropriate more than 50 million VND.

Currently, Nam Dan District Police are continuing to investigate and expand the case./.