Warning of fraud impersonating Vietnam Social Security to support re-issuing VssID application password

Recently, Vietnam Social Security received a complaint from Ms. Dao Thi N. - a worker at Canon Vietnam Co., Ltd. about being scammed by a person claiming to be a Social Security employee into transferring money to get her VssID password reissued.

According to Ms. N.'s reflection, because she could not remember the password of the VssID application, she went on Facebook to find out how to retrieve the password. Thereby, she contacted a Facebook named Tran Le Giang (subject) via the Messenger application and was introduced by this person as a file receiving employee of the Vietnam Social Security.

This person advised Ms. N. that: Only the Electronic Information Portal ofSocial insuranceVietnam has just been able to reissue the VssID password; if you want to retrieve the password of this application, you need to deposit money, this amount will be transferred to Ms. N. after she receives the password and to get the password back, Ms. N. must "upload a profile" to register through the Vietnam Social Security Electronic Information Portal, the attached profile includes: 2-sided ID card or Citizen ID, Social Security number, information to be changed, temporary residence address, phone number to issue the VssID password, account number to receive the deposit back.

Impersonating a person from Vietnam Social Security to help reissue the password for the VssID application - Social Security number to appropriate property. Photo: Provided by Vietnam Social Security

After gaining trust from Ms. N, this subject asked Ms. N. to transfer a deposit of 900,000 VND to ensure that this was her book number and phone number. "This is to avoid cases of borrowing records to leak information and forge records; after verifying the owner's records, the password will be sent to the device after 5 minutes and the deposit will be refunded according to regulations" - the subject texted.

Following the instructions, Ms. N. provided her personal information, a photo of her Citizen ID card, and called via Messenger to receive further instructions from the subject. After that, the subject sent Ms. N. a picture of the VssID password application form with a red stamp and a signature confirming receipt of the application form from the person named "Nguyen Vinh Quang - Head of the Records Department, Deputy Director of Vietnam Social Security", and asked Ms. N. to check the information again.

After checking the application form, Ms. N. transferred 900,000 VND to PHAM THI TRINH NGUYEN's account (STK 105001513701 - Dai Chung Bank); the transfer content stated: "deposit fee for re-issuing MK VssID". However, after that, this person continued to text and call Ms. N. (via Messenger application) to inform that the transfer content stated: "deposit fee for re-issuing MK VssID" was incorrect, but should be written as: "DAO THI NGAN phone number 0984613744" and would be fined 10,000,000 VND. Due to insufficient money in the account, Ms. N. transferred 5,000,000 VND to this account number and corrected the transfer content according to the subject's request. After that, this person informed her that in order to get her deposit back, she had to transfer an additional 11,800,000 VND to create an electronic account to transfer the money back. Because she did not have the money to transfer, Ms. N. talked to an acquaintance and learned that she had been scammed.

Seeing that Ms. N. did not transfer more money, the subject continued to call and said that the amount of 5,900,000 VND that had been paid had not been declared for tax and the Tax Department discovered that she was a tax evader. The subject also threatened that "the lightest penalty for tax evasion is 6 months of detention or a fine of 550 million VND. The inspector will come to work... and asked her to go to the Vietnam Social Security agency at 7 Trang Thi to work".

After realizing that she had been scammed, Ms. N. contacted the Social Insurance agency and was assisted by the Customer Service Center (Vietnam Social Insurance) to retrieve her VssID application password without having to pay any fees. Not only Ms. N., many other people have also reported through the hotline 1900.9068 of Vietnam Social Insurance about the situation of some subjects requesting to transfer money to reissue VssID password when searching on social networks.

How to reset your VSSID application password and account. Photo: Provided by Vietnam Social Security

Through this incident, Vietnam Social Security continues to inform and warn the people and workers:

Currently, all services supporting the settlement of procedures for Social Insurance and Health Insurance that Vietnam Social Insurance is implementing, people do not have to pay any fees, therefore any case requiring people to pay service fees as above is a fraudulent act.

Re-issuing the password for the electronic Social Insurance transaction account via the "Forgot password" function on the VssID application or the Vietnam Social Insurance Public Service Portal (the password will be provided via the email address that people declare when registering for the electronic Social Insurance transaction account).

In case of registering for a VssID account but not having information about the email address, people can add the email address through the following channels: Make a declaration form TK1-TS to declare additional email information through the electronic Social Insurance transaction of the unit, the collection service organization being managed or make a declaration form to change, add information to register to use the electronic transaction method in the field of Social Insurance according to Form No. 02/SD-GD, submit directly to the nearest Social Insurance agency or contact the Customer Support and Care Service Center directly via hotline 1900.9068 or 0243.7899999 (during office hours) for support./.