Arrested a gang of women scammers, taking more than ten billion dong on Facebook

Police have arrested several Africans who colluded with a group in Vietnam to defraud many women, stealing tens of billions of dong.

On April 5, the Department of Investigation Police on Economic Management and Position Crimes (PC46), Ho Chi Minh City Police - said that they are temporarily detaining a group of subjects including: Ihugba Agustine Chinonso (born in 1986), Onu Chinonoso Peter (born in 1985, both Nigerian nationals, residing in District 12), Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tuyet (born in 1992, from Nghe An), Le Van Nhoc (born in 1995, from Tay Ninh), Pham Truong Thanh (born in 1993, from Dong Nai), Nguyen Van Hai (born in 1990, from Binh Thuan), Tran Viet Hung (born in 1982, from Hanoi) to investigate the acts of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and "Forgery of documents and seals of agencies and organizations".

Fraud gang at the police station.

According to the investigation records, in 2013, Hung and Tuyet told many people that they knew a group of Nigerians who wanted to help them find partners in business. After getting acquainted, the two subjects asked for the victim's Facebook nickname to provide to the group of Africans.

The group of Africans then went on Facebook to make friends, talk about love, and promise to marry many women. After luring their “prey,” the scammers asked for their home addresses to send gifts from abroad to Vietnam for the engagement ceremony.

Next, Tuyet pretended to be a delivery person, calling and asking the victim to send money to receive the gift.

This subject also asked Hung and his wife to provide account information to receive money from the victim and then transfer it to Tuyet. After scamming many gullible people, Hung and his wife asked Le Van Nhoc, Pham Truong Thanh, and Nguyen Van Hai to fake ID cards and open many bank accounts to receive the scammed money.

From December 2015 to March 2016, Hung and his accomplices provided Tuyet with a total of more than 50 ATM cards and then went to banks to withdraw more than ten billion VND to give to the fraud group. Of this, Hung and his wife received 400 million VND to share with the above subjects.

Fake ID cards and tools used by groups to commit fraud

Seeing that it was a good deal, Hung and his wife went online to Facebook to get acquainted with two African men, Ihugba Agustine Chinonso and Onu Chinonoso Peter, to continue the scam. Recently, these two African men provided information and address of Ms. NTHC (born in 1979, in Ho Chi Minh City) to Hung and his wife.

With the same trick as above, Hung and his wife defrauded and appropriated 200 million VND from Ms. C.

At the investigation agency, these two Africans confessed that they were sent to Vietnam by the "boss" with the purpose of using Facebook to find women to make friends with and then work with other subjects in Vietnam to defraud and appropriate property as above.

According to the police, from December 2015 until their arrest, the gang had successfully carried out dozens of cases, embezzling more than ten billion dong.

According to nld.com.vn