Nghe An police promptly prevented the act of impersonating electricity employees to appropriate property.

Previously, on February 16, 2025, the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention received a report from Ms. PTH (born in 1972), residing in Nghi Huong ward, Vinh city, about being defrauded by subjects (unknown name and address) of nearly 700 million VND, so they quickly verified and handled the case according to regulations.

Accordingly, at around 4 p.m. the same day, Ms. PTH received a call from a strange phone number claiming to be an electricity company employee informing her family that her family owed electricity bills. Through initial verification, the scammers used caller ID spoofing technology to make their phone numbers appear as the official phone numbers of the electricity company.

Because the subject continuously urged and threatened to cut off the electricity if she did not pay quickly, Ms. H. complied with the subject's requests. Through the Zalo application, the subjects sent a link asking Ms. H. to install the Epoint application (a fake application containing malicious code that takes control of the device) on Ms. H's mobile phone.

After performing some operations on the application, the subjects continued to ask Ms. H. to access the A. bank application (name withheld) and use her citizen identification to complete the payment process. The subjects also sent a sophisticatedly designed payment QR code with the logo of EVN Electricity Corporation. Immediately after that, Ms. H.'s two A. bank payment accounts were automatically deducted 92 million VND and more than 600 million VND.

From the collected documents, the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention instructed Ms. H. to perform many operations on the phone to prevent the flow of money; at the same time, instructed Ms. H. to carry out the procedure of reporting directly to Bank A. to promptly freeze the above amount of money. It is worth mentioning that at that time, the subjects discovered that Ms. H. still had savings in her account (online savings book), so they continued to carry out tricks to appropriate the remaining savings. However, the officers of the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention promptly removed the malware, instructed Ms. H. to set up security for her bank account, and prevented the fraudulent behavior of the above subjects.

With the timely intervention of the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department, by the morning of February 17, 2025, Ms. H. had received back nearly 700 million VND mentioned above.

Currently, the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention is continuing to consolidate documents and verify subjects in accordance with the provisions of law.