Arrested 3 Chinese subjects for counterfeiting hundreds of ATM cards, stealing customers' money
(Baonghean.vn) - 3 Chinese people entered Vietnam, used electronic devices to steal information from customers' ATM cards, then forged ATM cards and appropriated hundreds of millions of dong.
On September 11, Vinh City Police presided over and coordinated with the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (Ministry of Public Security), the Department of Foreign Security and the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province Police, and Vietinbank to successfully break up Project T919, arresting 3 Chinese subjects who used computer networks, telecommunications networks, and electronic means to commit property appropriation.
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| 2 subjects Yang Chang Cai and Lian Yu. Photo: Xuan Bac |
Previously, through the investigation, Vinh City Police discovered a group of Chinese people residing in Vinh City with suspicious signs of using electronic devices installed in ATMs in Nghe An and several provinces and cities across the country to steal information about personal and organizational accounts opened at banks and then forge ATM cards of banks for the purpose of appropriating assets.
Faced with the above situation, the leaders of Vinh City Police have directed the General Investigation Team to preside over and coordinate with professional units to establish a special project coded T919 to focus on investigating, verifying, handling, and eliminating this group of subjects.
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| Hundreds of fake ATM cards used by the subjects were seized. Photo: Duc Vu |
After a period of verification, it was determined that this group of subjects including Yang Chang Cai (born in 1986), Denh Cong Cong (born in 1990) and Lian Yu (born in 1985), all residing in Jiangxi province, China, entered Vietnam to commit crimes, so the organization organized surveillance.
On September 11, the Investigation Committee conducted an administrative inspection of the above group of subjects while they were staying at a hotel on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Vinh City.
Through inspection, the working group discovered and seized from the subjects 333 bank cards suspected to be fake, of which 319 cards had been scanned for account holder information, 22 cards had money withdrawn from the account with an amount of nearly 300,000,000 VND and 14 blank cards, 3 electronic devices, 2 laptops...
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| Electronic devices that these subjects used to steal customers' money. Photo: Duc Vu |
Initial investigation determined that this group had successfully installed electronic devices into Vietinbank ATMs in Hung Dung Ward twice, stealing account information to use forged bank cards to appropriate assets in Vinh City.
Specifically, Denh Cong Cong and Lian Yu used electronic devices and attached them to ATMs to steal customers' passwords and personal account information and then transferred the initial information to Yang Chang Cai. Then Yang Chang Cai sent the data to China for a subject named Ly Van to decode and transfer the information back to Yang Chang Cai and his accomplices to create fake ATM cards to withdraw money from cardholders.
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| Vinh City Police Department conducts experimental investigation of the case. Photo: PB |
Currently, the Vinh City Police Department has temporarily detained the three above-mentioned subjects for the crime of "Using computer networks, telecommunications networks, and electronic means to commit acts of property appropriation as prescribed in Article 290 of the Penal Code and continues to coordinate with functional units to consolidate documents and evidence in accordance with the provisions of law.
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