IT engineer's trick turns prostitutes from 'ugly ducklings into swans'

Hanoi City Police have just prosecuted Nguyen Cong Sinh (born in 1996, residing in Thuy Van commune, Thai Thuy, Thai Binh) for the crime of "prostitution broker”.

At the same time, the police are continuing to arrest Tran Thi Hong Diep (born 1974, residing in Yen Hoa ward, Cau Giay, Hanoi), owner of Anh Sao motel.

According to the investigation agency's documents, Nguyen Cong Sinh graduated from a technical university with a bachelor's degree in information technology (IT). After graduating, Sinh worked at a real estate corporation in the Top 3 of Vietnam.

On December 17, detectives from the Anti-Social Evils and Human Trafficking Team of the Criminal Police Department (PC02, Hanoi City Police) suddenly raided the Anh Sao motel on Mai Anh Tuan street, Dong Da district, Hanoi.

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Here, the police discovered two couples engaging in prostitution in two rooms and two women waiting for customers.

At the police station, the subjects confessed to prostitution. According to the prostitutes’ statements, they had previously asked Nguyen Cong Sinh to create a brand on dark websites and social networks to practice their profession.

Immediately afterwards, Sinh was invited by the detectives to the police station for questioning. After initial denials, Sinh was forced to confess to his prostitution brokerage.

According to Sinh's confession, since October, he has used Zalo "Anh S" to find prostitutes and post their nude photos and phone numbers for prostitution on the website "kieunu...". From there, he advertised prostitution to customers at hotels and motels in Hanoi.

Sinh also created a nickname: "laophatgia..." and posted a post with nude photos and the prostitute's phone number.Internetfor the purpose of introducing prostitutes to customers.

The girls were posted on social networks by Sinh.

Sinh has many tricks to “polish” his prostitutes. Receiving a monthly salary of 8 million VND from prostitutes for “PR”, he thinks of ways to get as many customers as possible for his prostitutes.

First, Sinh asked the girls to take high-resolution nude photos and send them to him. Using photoshop techniques, Sinh would transform the girls from “ugly ducks” into “swans,” in all sorts of provocative lying and sitting positions.

Under the photos, Sinh posted his three measurements, along with attractive accompanying services. He also paid the admins of the dark web to make the nickname “laophatgia…” a “reputable checker” to increase the trust of customers who buy sex.

Sinh skillfully uses advertising language when giving girls stage names, and at the same time, creates provocative headlines. For example, Nguyen TL is given the stage name "Vy Anh" with the advertisement: "enjoy the feeling of a king"; or girl DH is given the stage name "Phuong Anh" with the advertisement: "Fairy descends to earth"...

This technology engineer also created multiple accounts at websites for party-goers such as Kieunu…club;... to simultaneously post information and photos of girls.

Since early 2020, detectives have had information about the subject's whereabouts. However, as an IT bachelor, Sinh always has many tricks to hide his whereabouts.

It took a lot of time to verify and the scouts to use counter-strategies to force Sinh to reveal his true identity.

After Sinh made his name known, on average, the prostitutes had about 4 customers each day, paying 800,000 VND/session (1-2 hours). Overnight stays cost 3.5 million VND/night.

Sinh confessed that since October, he has brokered at least 3 prostitutes to entertainment websites, receiving a salary of several tens of millions of dong per month.

However, according to a detective from the Criminal Police Department, in order to destroy the brokerage ring of Sinh and his accomplices, the police had to track this subject for a long time.