Nghe An police arrest young man using social networks to defraud nearly 200 million VND

On August 6, the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department of Nghe An Provincial Police (PA05) announced that it had successfully broken up a fraud case, arresting a young man from another province who had committed dozens of cases.Cheatwith many victims in provinces and cities, appropriating nearly 200 million VND.

Previously, through monitoring the situation on websites and social networks, PA05 detectives discovered many subjects using the internet, creating many social network accounts (Facebook, Zalo) to sell goods in order to defraud and appropriate property of many people in many provinces and cities.

In particular, from the end of June 2021 to July 2021, the PA05 department received reports from many victims in many provinces and cities across the country about being scammed and having their property stolen by a subject using a Facebook account named "Nguyen Cong Tri". This subject made friends with many other accounts, participated in many online sales pages, and posted articles selling electronic products to attract the attention of consumers.

Subject Nguyen Phuong Duy at the police station. Photo: Quynh Trang

To increase the trust of customers, the subject proactively provided phone numbers (junk SIMs) and sent photos of ID cards or made video calls directly to customers. After the customers agreed to purchase, the subject continued to use junk SIM numbers to contact buyers pretending to be shipping units, then used ID cards and many bank accounts (such as Vietcombank, Agribank, VPbank, MB) under the name of Nguyen Cong Tri to create trust for buyers to make money transfers.

However, after receiving the money, the subject immediately blocked the contacts and Facebook accounts of the buyers, using the Internetbanking application on the phone to transfer money to other accounts to appropriate it.

Through professional measures, Department PA05 identified Nguyen Phuong Duy (born in 1990), residing in Binh Minh 1 hamlet, Viet Hung commune, Truc Ninh district, Nam Dinh province, as the subject using the Facebook account named "Nguyen Cong Tri" to defraud and appropriate property with the above method.

Department PA05 and Do Luong District Police established a special project to investigate and concentrate forces to fight and destroy.

At 5:30 p.m. on August 4, 2021, the Investigation Committee detained Nguyen Phuong Duy in an emergency, searched his house and seized 02 mobile phones, 01 laptop, 01 bank card, 02 USBs and many other evidences related to the fraud.

At the investigation agency, the subject confessed to all his crimes.

During the investigation and exploitation of electronic data, it was initially determined that: From the beginning of 2021 until his arrest, Duy had committed fraud against 20 victims in many provinces and cities (including one victim who was a citizen of Do Luong district, Nghe An province), appropriating property worth over 170,000,000 VND.

The case is currently under further investigation.