Three 'beautiful women' impersonated doctors to sell fake medicine

On the evening of March 23, Cam Le District Police (Da Nang City) informed that the District Police Investigation Agency had just temporarily detained a group of women who had defrauded many women by selling fake medicine, medical treatment and beauty products to markets in Da Nang City and Quang Nam Province, appropriating hundreds of millions of dong.

Previously, around mid-March 2023, the Hoa Tho Dong Ward Police, Cam Le District (Da Nang City) received a criminal complaint from Ms. LTD (residing in Hoa Tho Dong) about being scammed by 3 female "doctors" and appropriating 9 million VND at Cam Le market under the guise of buying "Kim Suong" beauty and medical medicine.

The subjects impersonating doctors to sell medicine and beauty products to women, appropriating hundreds of millions of dong, were arrested by Cam Le District Police.

From the reported information, the police force continued to review the identification characteristics, narrow down the search area and clarify the methods of the subjects, and found 3 suspected women: Nguyen Thi Kim Anh (born in 1987), residing in Hai Chau district (Da Nang city), Tran Thi Sen (born in 1990), residing in Hoa Vang district (Da Nang city) and Tran Thi Sang (born in 1987), residing in Thang Binh district (Quang Nam).

This group of 3 female subjects not only operated and sold the "Kim Suong" drug product in Cam Le district, but also expanded the advertising and selling area to Con market (Hai Chau district); Hoa Khanh market (Lien Chieu district), Hoa Cam market (Hoa Vang). In particular, when Nguyen Thi Kim Anh was "invited" to the police headquarters to work, she always made excuses, only claiming that she "resold" it from some female street vendors.

Kim Anh also tried to "alert" her two "colleagues" Sen and Sang, asking them to delete all electronic data, messages, and contact information and then hide from the authorities. However, faced with solid evidence from the police, all three women had to admit to impersonating doctors, fraud, and selling fake drugs to appropriate their property.

According to Kim Anh's confession, the three discussed and assigned each person: Kim Anh went to Con market to buy malt grains for 55,000 VND/kg, then prepared scales and packaging, brought them to sit and wait in front of Cam Le market, pretending to be sellers of traditional medicine to treat diseases. Meanwhile, Sen and Sang pretended to be doctors, went around, lured and lured women going to the market, and gullible people to give false information leading them to Kim Anh to buy medicine.

More cleverly, if Sen finds a buyer who leads him to Kim Anh's drug store, Sang will pretend to be the drug buyer, boasting about the uses of the drugs he has used as well as false information, making many gullible people fall into the trap of buying drugs to treat diseases, beautify, and treat eye bags at high prices.

The victims of this trio added: Kim Anh, Sen, Sang also used the trick of claiming to be doctors of Da Nang Eye Hospital, advertising and propagating that "Taking Kim Suong medicine" will have many uses in curing diseases, rejuvenating, turning gray hair into black hair... In less than 1 month (from February 10 until being discovered and caught red-handed on March 17), this trio tricked dozens of victims, most of whom were women in Da Nang City and some neighboring communes in Quang Nam province, losing a total of more than 250 million VND.

The Investigation Police Agency of Cam Le District Police requests that anyone who is a victim of the case of fraud in buying fake medicine and appropriating property with similar tricks, contact Cam Le District Police (298 Cach Mang Thang 8, Cam Le District, Da Nang) to provide information, helping the Police continue to expand and investigate to clarify the fraudulent behavior of appropriating property of subjects impersonating doctors.