The Ministry of Public Security identifies a number of new fraud methods and tricks of high-tech criminals in cyberspace.

Recently, in the progress report on the implementation of the Prime Minister's Official Dispatch No. 139/CD-TTg on strengthening the prevention and handling of high-tech fraud and appropriation of assets in cyberspace, the Ministry of Public Security identified a number of main methods and tricks of fraud in cyberspace as follows:

- Impersonating law enforcement agencies to threaten and request victims to transfer money; impersonating the Cyber ​​Security Center, the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, the Ministry of Finance... promising to get back the money that was scammed; impersonating police officers, government officials to guide the installation of public service applications(VNeID,service, tax...) to control the device, seize money in the victim's bank account(accounting for 21.47%%).

- Through online job recruitment activities, recruiting online sales collaborators, doing tasks to earn money(accounting for 21.01%).

- Through investment activities in economic corporations, on stock exchanges, foreign exchange exchanges, e-commerce exchanges, cryptocurrencies...(accounting for 20.53%)

-Through online trading, buying and selling goods, ordering online(accounting for 8.03%).

- By taking control (hacking) or impersonating social network accounts and then borrowing money, asking for money transfers, buying phone cards (accounting for 8.67%%).

- Tricks of love traps, giving valuable gifts to defraud and appropriate property(accounting for the proportion)5.8%).

There are also other methods and tricks such as: Tricks of cutting and editing sensitive images and videos for the purpose of fraud and blackmail; online loan fraud, opening high-limit credit cards; impersonating charitable organizations; cheap airline tickets and tours... still happening.

In addition, the Ministry of Public Security has pointed out a number of new methods and tricks including:

-Fraudulent "jelly betting", "stone betting":The subjects used social networks Facebook, TikTok... to livestream scams in the form of cutting stones to find jade, but in fact, it was staged to defraud and appropriate the victims' deposits and contributions to examine stones.

- LFraudster impersonating police officers, creating an office that resembles a police agency (many people in uniform working, police officers taking statements from subjects...), making video calls to commit fraud and property appropriation.

-Sending summons with forged seal and signature of People's Court Judge to people's homes,Then called to threaten and ask the victim to "run the case" (happened in Hanoi).

- Methods and tricks to take advantage of the Party's policies and guidelines and state management work, such as:

+ After implementing the merger of commune-level administrative units, scammers immediately had a scenario of calling people to fraudulently change their citizen identification cards and update information data according to the new model.

+ When the Politburo had a policy of exempting tuition fees for students, scammers created a scenario to trick people into registering for tuition exemption for their children, refunding tuition fees to get information and creating many other reasons for parents to transfer money.

+ After Pi virtual currency was listed on the exchange, scammers immediately had scenarios, built fake applications and exchanges to defraud victims of Pi virtual currency...

Most of the cyber frauds are carried out by subjects in foreign countries (Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Myanmar...), concentrated in economic zones owned by Chinese subjects such as: Golden Triangle Special Zone (Bo Keo, Laos); Sihanoukville Special Zone, Tam Thai Tu Special Zone (Cambodia); Robinson Zone in Pasay, Manila (Philippines)...

Typically, on June 3, 2025, the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police presided over and coordinated with the Departments of the Ministry of Public Security, the Departments of Provincial Police, the Police of provinces, cities, border gates across the country and related units to successfully break up a special case, eradicate a criminal gang operating in Myanmar and the Philippines using high technology to commit transnational online fraud, arresting nearly 100 subjects (from many provinces and cities across the country, many of whom were arrested after entering Vietnam). It is estimated that the group has defrauded and appropriated more than 2,000 billion VND from Vietnamese citizens.

According to the Ministry of Public Security, in order to prevent and combat fraud and property appropriation, recently Although propaganda work has been done well, the awareness of access of a part of the population is still low, especially the young (who only watch entertainment programs). Applying AI to filter content according to user trends of website and social network platforms makes it even more difficult for people who rarely watch propaganda to access propaganda content...

Therefore, ministries, branches, People's Committees of provinces and cities need to strengthen propaganda work, mobilize the combined strength of the entire political system to spread propaganda about fraudulent property appropriation activities to all classes of people, creating habits for people to access and research.