Scammed out of billions after finding a job online

Due to her shopping needs, Ms. Thai Thi Tham (living in Cao Lanh City, Dong Thap Province) placed 2 orders through the Facebook account of the owner named "Si tuyen Van Anh" and left her phone number for the shop owner to contact.

A victim came to report being scammed online.

After that, someone added her on Zalo and Facebook to discuss with her to finalize the order and request a transfer. Because she had bought from the shop many times, Ms. Tham completely trusted her and transferred 600,000 VND twice.

After discovering that the Zalo account and the recipient's name were different from the previous times, Ms. Tham discovered that she had been scammed. "The scammer used the same name and background image of Zalo as the real shop, making me confused," Ms. Tham said.

An unbelievable story happened to a woman in Lap Vo district, who reported being scammed out of 8.4 billion VND. According to the victim, in February 2022, because she needed to find a job, she searched on Facebook and came across an account named "Tet Job 1", offering an attractive commission if she successfully completed the purchase task.

After a period of discussion, the subject instructed the victim to install an app called CTGroup on her phone to deposit and withdraw money online when performing the task of purchasing orders on the Omazon e-commerce site. At first, she participated in depositing money to complete the task, then she was able to withdraw both capital and interest. When the fish took the bait, the subject asked her to deposit a larger amount of 5 million VND.

After transferring money to many bank accounts, the victim transferred a total of over 8.4 billion VND. When the victim could no longer deposit money to complete the task, the subject disappeared and was no longer in contact.

According to the victim, the reason he got caught up in the vortex was because he was afraid of losing the money he had previously deposited, and secondly, he was influenced by the group of people in the group.

Since the beginning of the year, Dong Thap Provincial Police have received 47 cases of subjects using high technology to defraud and appropriate property, with a total loss of over 23 billion VND. According to the police, online fraud continues to be complicated with many sophisticated methods and tricks. Subjects take advantage of many women's need to shop and find jobs online to set traps and then appropriate property.

Major Le Van Dien, Head of the Cyber ​​Crime Prevention Team, Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department, recommends that people absolutely do not listen to advertising invitations to participate in tasks on apps of unknown origin, mobile applications... with high and attractive interest rates.

"Those are tricks and schemes that subjects set up to commit fraud and property appropriation. People absolutely must not borrow money through online applications and be wary of strange phone numbers, absolutely do not follow instructions, and do not transfer money to anyone when we do not know who they are," said Major Le Van Dien.