Nghe An police arrest 'hacker' group hacking Facebook to defraud and appropriate 20 billion VND

On June 30, Thai Hoa Town Police (Nghe An) said that the Investigation Police Agency had just initiated a case, prosecuted and temporarily detained 5 subjects for fraud and property appropriation.
Recently, Thai Hoa Town Police have continuously received reports from many Facebook users that their personal accounts have been hacked by bad actors and their passwords have been changed to illegally take over their accounts.

Upon verification, the detectives discovered a group specializing in hacking Facebook, in which Doan Vu Truong (born in 1991, residing in Trieu Ai, Trieu Phong, Quang Tri) was a drug addict who frequently appeared in the area and showed unusual signs in renting and creating different bank accounts.

The Investigation Police Agency has prosecuted and temporarily detained the subjects for investigation. Photo: Quynh Trang

Accordingly, Thai Hoa Town Police arrested Doan Vu Truong for illegally storing drugs and seized 1.5 grams of synthetic drugs. From there, they exploited and collected all data on the subject's mobile phone and bank card related to the act of appropriating property via the internet.

Evidence of the case. Photo: Quynh Trang

From the end of 2019 until now, as the leader, Do Thien Hung and his group have directly created fake Facebook accounts and sent friend requests to people living and working abroad. After that, they sent messenger messages to the victims in the form of votes to receive promotions.

When the victim clicks on the link, enters their name and password to vote, their name and account will be transferred to the account managed by Hung. Having obtained the login password, the subjects immediately take over the victim's Facebook account and text the victim's friends and relatives to borrow and ask for money.

Leaders of Thai Hoa Town People's Committee awarded the project team.

Using the above tricks, the subjects have appropriated more than 20 billion VND from many victims nationwide, on average, they appropriate from several tens of millions to several hundreds of millions of VND per day. On May 12 alone, there were 5 transactions transferring money into the subjects' accounts at a Phu Quy branch bank with the amount of 231 million VND.

To legitimize the amount of money they appropriated, they rented and bought many different bank accounts. After the victims transferred money through the accounts, they immediately withdrew cash through ATMs to divide it among themselves. More sophisticatedly, the subjects agreed on the way of action: if the victims were from the North, the bank accounts for them to receive money were in the Central or Southern regions to avoid detection and investigation...
Currently, Thai Hoa Town Police are continuing to coordinate with relevant units to investigate, expand the case, and strictly handle it according to the provisions of law.