Nghe An police arrested 41 subjects involved in illegal trading of bank account information.
The Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province Police presided over and coordinated with relevant units to successfully crack down on a case, eliminating a group of criminals who illegally collected, stored, exchanged, traded, and publicized information about bank accounts; committed fraud, appropriation of property, and money laundering in Nghe An and other provinces and cities across the country.
Previously, through management work and understanding the local situation, the Criminal Police Department discovered a group of Vietnamese people colluding with subjects in Cambodia to purchase bank accounts to provide to fraud gangs to appropriate assets through cyberspace.
Faced with the above situation, the Provincial Police Department's leaders have directed the Criminal Police Department to preside over and coordinate with relevant units and localities to establish a special project to combat and destroy the above-mentioned organized crime ring.
During the investigation and verification process, the Police Agency determined that this was a criminal gang with a completely new nature and method, organized, with specific division of tasks among members, led by Vu Trung Kien (born 1994), residing in Vu Thu district, Thai Binh province; Pham Hoang Hiep (born 1992), residing in Thai Hoa town, Nghe An province; Vu Hoang Nha (born 1984) and Hoang Xuan Truong (born 1988), both residing in Yen Khanh district, Ninh Binh province.
Accordingly, to serve the fraudulent activities of appropriating assets on the internet through the trick of impersonating Facebook accounts, social networks of relatives to trick people into transferring money, defrauding financial investments..., the subjects have created a system of "henchmen" in many provinces and cities across the country to buy bank accounts.
These subjects approach many different components, occupations, and ages in society, especially the elderly, low-income workers, people with little knowledge of the law, or students... to hire them to open bank accounts to receive wages at prices ranging from 500,000 - 4,000,000 VND/account.
After successfully opening a bank account, the account owner must hand over account information, phone SIM, email, record a video of his face and follow other requests from the subjects. The account owner's personal information and video will be used by the subjects to hack the bank account's biometrics and then transfer it to the subjects in Cambodia to receive fraudulent money and launder money from criminal activities.
The purchase of bank accounts to provide to subjects across the border was assigned by Kien, Hiep, Nha, and Truong to subjects Dao Van Khanh (born 2001), residing in Yen Chau district, Son La province; Bui Thi Thuong (born 1984), residing in Ha Dong district, Hanoi city and Ta Thi Lan Anh (born 1973), residing in Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi city as level 1 "agents" to directly carry out.
To acquire many bank accounts, the level 1 "agents" continued to create and assign subordinate "agents" including: Dang Quy Duong (born 2004), residing in Pho Yen city, Thai Nguyen province; Ha Thi Lan (born 1986), residing in Thanh Son district, Phu Tho province and Tran Thi Le Giang (born 1984), residing in Vu Thu district, Thai Binh province.
The police agency clarified that in a short period of time, the criminals rented and bought more than 500 accounts at many different banks (including personal and business accounts) for the purpose of fraud and money laundering.
The money the scammers transferred to the accounts purchased from the people will continue to be directed by the leaders to be transferred to many different accounts and then used to buy USDT cryptocurrency to erase traces of crime and avoid detection by authorities.
After collecting sufficient documents and evidence, on December 15, Nghe An Provincial Police presided over and coordinated with the Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security, the Department of Professional Affairs of the Ministry of Public Security, Hanoi City Police, Thai Nguyen Provincial Police, Ninh Binh Provincial Police, Bac Giang Provincial Police and related professional departments and offices, successfully broke the case, arresting 41 subjects involved in the acts of "Illegal collection, storage, exchange, purchase, sale, and publicization of information about bank accounts; Fraudulent appropriation of property and money laundering" occurring in Nghe An province and many provinces and cities across the country.
Initially, the Criminal Police Department of the Provincial Police clarified that the above-mentioned group had laundered money and defrauded more than 50 billion VND from many victims across the country. In Nghe An, there was a victim who had been defrauded by the subjects and had the amount of money appropriated up to 700 million VND.
Currently, the Investigation Agency of Nghe An Provincial Police has prosecuted and detained 10 subjects for the crimes of: illegally collecting, storing, exchanging, buying, selling, and publicizing information about bank accounts; Fraudulent appropriation of property and money laundering. At the same time, it continues to verify, investigate, clarify, fight to expand the case and handle the remaining subjects in accordance with the law.
To avoid the risk of falling into the "trap" of bad guys, Nghe An Police recommends: People need to raise awareness in opening, using, managing payment accounts, bank cards, and personal documents, absolutely do not buy, sell, exchange, give away, lend, or rent payment accounts, bank cards, or personal documents. Limit sharing personal information and data such as: citizen identification card images, phone numbers, payment account numbers, etc. on the internet to avoid being taken advantage of by subjects to commit illegal acts.
When discovering that their identity documents or bank cards have been lost, people need to report to the authorities to have them reissued and notify the bank to block the card. In case of discovering any person soliciting to rent, lend, buy or sell payment accounts or bank cards, people are requested to report and provide documents and evidence to the nearest police station for handling according to the law.
Banks need to strengthen control over the issuance and use of credit cards, prevent and stop illegal use of bank cards (especially credit cards), and control risks, ensuring security and safety in bank card operations.
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