Three 'beautiful women' impersonate 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 at markets in Da Nang City and Quang Nam Province to appropriate 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 losing 9 million VND at Cam Le market under the guise of buying "Kim Suong" beauty and medical medicine.

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

From the information reported, the police force continued to check 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 drug product "Kim Suong" 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, subject Nguyen Thi Kim Anh, when "invited" to the police headquarters for questioning, 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, defrauding, selling fake drugs and appropriating 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 and sat in front of Cam Le market, pretending to be a seller of traditional medicine. Meanwhile, Sen and Sang pretended to be doctors, going around, luring women and gullible people to go to the market and giving 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 buyer, showing off the uses of the drugs he has used as well as false information that makes 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 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 by subjects impersonating doctors.