Beware of 'recovery of money from online fraud' services from 'fake' lawyers

The Criminal Police Department, Ministry of Public Security said that recently, Ms. NTM, out of gullibility, transferred money to scammers. The amount of money was reported by the scammers as "being suspended online". Knowing that she had been scammed, Ms. M promptly reported it to the law enforcement agency and is waiting for a resolution. However, with the desire to quickly get her money back, the victim was scammed again by new people impersonating lawyers, working at law offices, who can help victims get back the money they were scammed online.

This is one of many victims recently chosen by scammers as "prey" for a series of "inhumane" scams. After people have been scammed the first time, they continue to be thoroughly exploited by the subjects who want to quickly get their property back and take advantage of cyberspace to provide service information that "your money is being suspended online" or have the ability to connect with banks and law enforcement agencies to provide "money recovery" services.

These subjects often introduce themselves as lawyers, working at law offices but they are not real, at the same time, the subjects require people to transfer service fees in advance. However, after the victims transfer money, the subjects continuously give different reasons to ask the victims to continue transferring money. Knowing that they have been scammed again, the victims can do nothing.

According to Lieutenant Colonel Le Vinh Tung - Deputy Head of the Serious Crime Department (Criminal Police Department), the process of fighting and handling this crime encountered many difficulties, because this is a systematic fraud line, the workplace and the subjects are mainly abroad. The victims and the subjects do not know each other, do not know who the subjects are, and do not have any information related to the subjects. In particular, the accounts receiving money are 100% virtual accounts, the owners are not the users (account sellers) or they make accounts of people who have lost their citizen identification cards...

In addition, the subjects take advantage of the psychology of the victims who have just lost money and want to get their money back, so after receiving information that they are likely to get it back, they are ready to transfer money to the subjects immediately. They impersonate real law offices and publicize them online, so many people trust them, even standing in front of the law office to transfer money.

Also according to Lieutenant Colonel Le Vinh Tung, after transferring the money, within a few minutes the victim's money was transferred to hundreds of other accounts, also virtual accounts... the final locations were often money exchange services or gold and silver shops, making it difficult to fight and recover money for the people.

The Ministry of Public Security recommends that people, especially those who have been victims of fraud, should pay attention to: Regularly read and grasp information on official websites of law enforcement agencies and newspapers to promptly recognize the criminal tricks of the subjects.

Be vigilant, check and verify information on social networking sites carefully and do not transfer money to anyone, for any reason, without confirming exactly who the recipient is and where they are. If you have been scammed, immediately report to the nearest police station, absolutely do not listen to the instructions of any person who pretends to be able to get the money back for the victim but must transfer the fee first.