Police are looking for people whose Facebook was hacked and money was stolen by a group of young men.
(Baonghean.vn) - Nguyen Duc Huy and two others took control of users' Facebook accounts, then took over bank accounts and used the money to buy Bitcoin to resell.
On February 9, Hai Chau District Police, Da Nang City announced that they were looking for victims because Nguyen Duc Huy (born in 1996, residing in Quang Tri town, Quang Tri province), a student at the College of Technology - Da Nang University, used the internet or digital devices to appropriate property.
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| Nguyen Duc Huy at the police station. Photo: Pham Bang |
Since November 2017, Huy, Le Van Ngoc Tu (22 years old) and Nguyen Van Dong (30 years old, both from Quang Tri) used computer skills to attack and take over Facebook accounts of Vietnamese people studying and living abroad, then impersonated them to talk to friends and relatives on the list and asked for account numbers with the excuse of sending money from abroad to Vietnam.
The police agency requests that victims who have transactions with account: 104000915202 named Thach Dan Thanh, VietinBank Ho Chi Minh City branch, contact Hai Chau District Police, Da Nang City (Tel: 0236.3823233 - 0934086185) to provide information.
This group of hackers used the trick of creating fake messages, luring victims to provide OTP numbers, then hijacking bank accounts and using the money to buy Bitcoin. Huy took advantage of the anonymity of virtual currency transactions to sell Bitcoin and receive VND.
The police determined that Huy's group had defrauded 14 people, taking 275 million VND, but there were still many victims because Huy had more than 1 billion VND in his account. Huy used the defrauded money for online gambling.
Previously, after the investigation, on November 29, 2017, detectives of PC45 raided a rented room in Hai Chau 1 ward, Hai Chau district (Da Nang city) and arrested two subjects: Nguyen Duc Huy and Le Van Ngoc Tu.
On December 7, 2017, the Nghe An Police Investigation Agency issued a decision to prosecute Nguyen Duc Huy to investigate the crime of "Using computer networks, telecommunications networks, the Internet or digital devices to commit acts of property appropriation".
Checking the subjects’ phones, the detectives discovered that there were more than 350 phone numbers in the call list. After randomly selecting more than 15 phone numbers to text, 3 people in Nam Dinh, Da Nang, and Hai Duong responded that they were victims of this form of fraud.
In Nghe An, the Criminal Police Department of the Provincial Police received reports from 6 victims related to the above form of fraud and property appropriation with a total amount of 265 million VND. Among them, 1 victim was identified as Ms. Ho Thi H. (residing in Vinh City) who had 100 million VND appropriated by Huy's group.
