Ministry of Public Security warns, 'exposing' psychological manipulation tricks of technology criminals
The Ministry of Public Security has just issued a warning to people to be vigilant when communicating with strangers on social networks, absolutely do not share personal information, and follow instructions without accurately determining the identity and background of that person.
According to the Ministry of Public Security, people need to be vigilant when investing in stocks, multi-level marketing, virtual currencies... on online trading floors with unclear information or information that shows signs of being fake. At the same time, it is necessary to carefully research information about the trading floor before investing, especially investment floors that post virtual, fake, or fake addresses of legitimate investment floors.
In particular, people should only invest in official exchanges that have been licensed by state management agencies. Before investing, they should go directly to the offices of the exchanges to get advice, support and verify information.
Sophisticated methods and tricks
Along with issuing warnings, the Ministry of Public Security also pointed out the sophisticated methods and tricks that criminals have used in recent times to commit fraud.appropriation of propertyof the people.
Specifically, criminals use fake accounts (using images of individuals with good looks) to participate in websites, groups (groups, fanpages) on social networking sites (mainly Facebook) about real estate buying, selling, and renting...
Then they interacted and paid attention to posts by individuals (mostly women, with good economic conditions) with content about renting and selling real estate and sent friend requests to ask for more information.
Every day, the subjects would focus on discussing the content of the posts posted by the victims in the group. After a while, they would proactively talk about other topics such as family circumstances, work...
To lure their “prey” into their trap, they start sharing about themselves and their lives to create sympathy and closeness with the victim. The scenario they build is often about overcoming difficulties to have a successful life, moving the family to settle abroad, getting married but having an unhappy marriage or being single because the wife died early…
After winning the sympathy of the victim, when the "prey" is off guard, they begin to lure them into investing in financial investment platforms, stocks, and virtual currencies that they create in cyberspace.
When the victim hesitates and does not want to join the investment in the system, the subject will use the excuse of giving information of an account and say that it is the account of a relative (father, mother) of the subject and let the victim log in to the account and try playing.
The victim saw that the orders all won from 5-50%, and the subject shared that he could analyze them to win 100%. When he felt confident, the victim offered to join in, and the subject instructed the victim to open an account on these systems.
Every day, the subject guides the victims to place orders with a high winning rate; when people want to withdraw money, the system allows easy withdrawal to e-wallet, virtual wallet or receive money to bank account.
Then, they instruct their “prey” to continue depositing large amounts of money to increase profits. When the amount of money deposited into the system is large enough (up to hundreds of millions or billions of dong), they will lock the account, citing the discovery of unusual signs…
And when the victim requests to withdraw money from the system, they will not be able to withdraw money because they are required to pay personal income tax and are required to deposit more (30-40%) of the amount to be able to withdraw money.
However, when the victim deposits more money, they will use different reasons to not let the victim withdraw money. When the victim is no longer financially capable, they will delete contact, crash the website and take the victim's money.
According to the Ministry of Public Security, when people suspect that they are being scammed online, they should search for information about online scams or seek advice from friends and relatives. They should immediately report the incident to the nearest police station to receive timely advice and support; and at the same time, contact the bank in charge to report the incident and request support.
