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 a profit 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 being robbed 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 dol 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 but in the end the money was still not withdrawn.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 Department recommends that people be vigilant when participating in financial investment through financial investment applications, international trading floors advertised with high interest rates, with potential risks of fraud 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 his gullibility, NXT was scammed and had a total amount of more than 1.2 billion VND appropriated.
Specifically, in early June 2022, Mr. NXT was initially made friends with by NNP on Zalo and Telegram, asked for his phone number to share investment, used sweet 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 2:00, 4:00, 8:00, 10:00.
At first, participating in the experience felt 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 the account had a lot of profit, Mr. NXT wanted to withdraw money, but NNP required him to pay 10% tax on the value of the account, 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 the second 300 million VND (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 could not be contacted on social networks Zalo and Telegram.
Notably, according to Mr. NXT's statement, based on NNP's citizen identification card, he went to NNP's locality to ask the police to verify and was told that it was a fake citizen identification card, 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 for criminal handling in accordance with the law.
