Authorities bust inter-provincial fraud ring that swindled hundreds of billions of dong online.
The suspects forged images, documents, and papers, bought and sold fake bank accounts, and committed fraud to embezzle assets online, with the estimated amount potentially reaching 100 billion VND.
On December 24th, the Quang Binh Provincial Police announced that, following an investigation, the Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department, along with the Provincial Police Investigation Agency, had identified nine individuals involved in the forgery of images, documents, and papers, the buying and selling of fake bank accounts, and fraud.misappropriation of propertyonline.
During the investigation, the Quang Binh Provincial Police, in coordination with the Dong Thap Provincial Police and the Hanoi City Police, summoned six individuals: Nguyen Hoang Tan Tai (born in 2003), Truong Thi TL (born in 2007), Vo Chi Cong (born in 2001), Truong Dinh Hoang (born in 2006), Pham Van Quyen (born in 2001), and Nguyen Van Sang (born in 2004), all residing in Quang Ninh district, Quang Binh province.
This is a group specializing in hacking Facebook accounts, then sending messages to buy goods and using fake bank transfer receipts to scam people.
At the same time, the perpetrators also sought to purchase fake bank accounts with names matching the compromised Facebook accounts in order to impersonate the accounts, send fraudulent messages, or borrow money.
During the expanded investigation, authorities summoned Vu Ngoc Mai and Vu Duc Giang (born in 1993, residing in Dong Da district, Hanoi). These two individuals exploited loopholes in banks to create numerous fake accounts, which they then sold for prices ranging from 50,000 to 300,000 VND per account.
To date, the amount of money transacted in the accounts managed by Mai and Giang has reached 32 billion VND, including two "junk" accounts used for fraudulent activities totaling nearly 8 billion VND. Investigators estimate that the total amount of illegal transactions related to these fake accounts could reach 100 billion VND.
In Dong Thap, the investigating team summoned Vo Huu Nhan (born in 2004, residing in Cao Lanh district). Nhan was responsible for creating and managing a series of websites providing services for forging bank transfer receipts, images of citizen identification cards, passports, driver's licenses, and bank transfer transaction emails.
Verification revealed that the websites managed by Nhan attracted 89,710 user accounts, facilitated 247,757 instances of forged bank transfer receipts, and created 33,479 fake citizen identification cards.
The investigation team seized numerous items of evidence, including: 5 computer sets, 10 mobile phones, 1 device for generating "junk" SIM cards, 301 "junk" SIM cards, 32 bank accounts, a database of fake websites, and other evidence.
The Quang Binh Provincial Police have temporarily detained nine individuals involved in the case for further investigation and legal processing.
