Investing in virtual currency, man was scammed of more than 2 billion VND
When wanting to withdraw money, the victim has to deposit more money with reasons such as depositing verification money, upgrading VIP account, risking safety money... but in the end it is still taken.
Hanoi City Police said that recently, the industry's functional units have warned about fraudulent tricks when participating in virtual currency investment.
The subjects often introduce this as a project with high interest rates. In the beginning, when participating in investing in virtual currency, investors will make profits and be encouraged to deposit more money. After that, they will advise investors to continue to deposit more money and then not allow withdrawals to appropriate the money.
Recent,Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention,Hanoi City Police received a complaint from a victim about the appropriation of more than 2 billion VND when investing in virtual currency such as Bitcoin.
According to this victim, through the introduction of an old friend, within just 2 days, the victim deposited money into the ACO system and won 226,000 USD.
When wanting to withdraw money, the subjects asked the victims to deposit more money with reasons such as: Depositing verification money, upgrading VIP account, safe risk money... but in the end the money was still not withdrawn. In total, the victims made 15 transactions and lost more than 2 billion VND...
To prevent fraud, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Hanoi City Police recommends that people be vigilant when participating in financial investments through financial investment applications, international trading floors advertised with high interest rates, with potential risks of being scammed to protect themselves and avoid falling into financial traps. When encountering cases with signs of fraud, people need to contact the police to promptly resolve the case according to regulations.
Also according to the complaint to the press agency, an investor named NXT (living in Hoang Mai district, Hanoi) said that due to gullibility, Mr. NXT was scammed and had a total amount of more than 1.2 billion VND appropriated.
Specifically, in early June 2022, Mr. NXT was tricked by NNP using sophisticated tricks. Initially, he made friends on Zalo and Telegram, asked for his phone number to share investments, used nice words, boasted that he was a successful person, earned a lot of money, and bought many houses to please investors.
NNP instructed Mr. NXT to transfer VND to NNP's secretary account to buy 100$. Then, NNP organized to read Trade orders on Polkswallet.com, at 2am, 4am, 8am, 10am.
At first, when participating in the experience, it seemed profitable. When it was ripe, NNP took advantage of NXT's greed, texting and calling NXT many times to tell him to pay more money into the account.
When Mr. NXT borrowed a large sum of money and deposited it into the account, NNP asked to be the trustee to share the money according to the agreement of 30% and 70%. Mr. NXT trusted and handed over the account to NNP and NNP's team.
When he saw that his account had a lot of profit, Mr. NXT wanted to withdraw money, but NNP required him to pay 10% tax on the account value, then the money he wanted to withdraw would be transferred to Mr. NXT's bank account.
Mr. NXT agreed to pay the full 10% (about 300 million VND), but NNP intervened in the system, reported an error and gave many reasons to explain why Mr. NXT could not withdraw money.
After that, Mr. NXT listened to NNP's advice and borrowed money from relatives to pay back 10% tax (300 million VND) to be able to withdraw both principal and interest, which amounted to several billion VND. But right after paying 300 million VND for the second time (total of 2 tax payments is 600 million VND), Mr. NXT still did not see the money in his personal account. NNP blocked his phone number, and he could not be contacted on social networks Zalo and Telegram.
Notably, according to Mr. NXT's statement, based on the citizen identification card of the NNP, he went to the locality of the NNP to ask the police to verify and was told that it was a fake citizen identification card, the NNP did not have a permanent residence at the address on that citizen identification card...
Mr. NXT said that he has prepared a complaint to send to the Hanoi City Police Department, requesting verification and clarification of NNP's fraudulent behavior and property appropriation to handle it criminally according to the law.
