Exposing the unique tricks of the impersonating leader scammer

To defeat the victim, the subject tricked the provincial leader and then appropriated money from banks, businesses, cooperatives, and bus companies.

On May 5, the Department of High-Tech Crime Prevention (C50), Ministry of Public Security, said: Through the fight against Nguyen Duy Phuong (aka Phuong "gay", 27 years old, residing in Hung My commune, Cai Nuoc district, Ca Mau), initially clarified many unique tricks of the subject "attacking" the psychology of the victim to defraud.

According to the police, Phuong knew the common mentality of banks, businesses, cooperatives, and bus companies operating in a province or city because they were afraid of affecting their personal reputation and business brand, so he impersonated leaders of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Committee, and Provincial Police to borrow money. If they discovered they had been scammed, most victims with a certain status in society would not dare to report the violation.

Subject Phuong "gay" was arrested

Typically, at 1:00 p.m. on February 9, a person impersonating a leader of Dong Thap province called the director of a local bank to borrow 30 million VND to send to his nephew in Thu Duc district, Ho Chi Minh City. The bank director asked the reason and was told by the "leader" that his nephew had a traffic accident and needed money to pay hospital bills.

Then, at around 2:30 p.m. the same day, a person impersonating a leader of Dong Nai province called the owner of a phone store in Dong Nai to ask to buy an iPhone 7 Plus for 22 million VND, then asked to provide an account number so that relatives could transfer money.

The subject then called the Director of a bank in Dong Thap to immediately transfer the above amount into the account. In fact, this director did not know that he had transferred the money into the account of a mobile phone store in Dong Nai. In this case, the mobile phone store did not lose the phone. The subject went to the store to receive the phone and the remaining amount was 8 million VND.

Most recently, a person impersonating a Ho Chi Minh City leader was preparing to work in the Western provinces to "borrow" money from a restaurant business. The person said he needed money to decorate flowers (ordered in Ho Chi Minh City) to welcome guests in order to embezzle more than 30 million VND.

When contacting the victim, they trusted the subject on two grounds: The subject introduced himself as a city leader. This person often appeared in the media and was known to any citizen; at the same time, the city leader also sent "soldiers" to survey the scene to prepare for the formal meeting at the restaurant. In addition, the subject used many scripts, imitating the voices of the elderly, children, women... to scam.

During the process of searching for the suspect, the detectives also discovered that the suspect also "hit" the psychology of monks who are abbots in many southern provinces to commit fraud.

Specifically, due to the desire to carry out many charitable activities in the area and neighboring provinces, the monk wanted to connect with Phuong. Because of this weakness, many monks agreed to spend from 10-20 million VND to give to the subject.

With the “bridging fee”, Phuong promised to bring many charity groups to cooperate with the pagoda. In reality, the charity groups were nowhere to be seen and the “good people” had disappeared. Many times Phuong even impersonated the head of a charity organization to promise the date, time, and members of the group to bring goods to support, but after having cheated the money, he disappeared...

According to CAND