The fraudsters repeatedly gave birth and became pregnant to avoid serving their sentences.
Despite being convicted of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" by provincial courts, and having her sentence suspended due to caring for a young child and being pregnant, Yen continued to commit fraud on social media. In this latest arrest, Yen used social media, impersonating an artist to perpetrate her scams…
On November 22nd, the Police of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, completed the handover of Lam Ngoc Yen (born in 1988, from Ca Mau province) to the Ca Mau Provincial Police for investigation and prosecution for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property"according to the arrest warrant issued by the police of this province."
According to the case file, Yen is a heavy drug addict with a long criminal record for "fraudulent appropriation of property." In 2020, Yen was arrested by the Vinh City Police (Nghe An province) for "fraudulent appropriation of property," and the Vinh City People's Court sentenced her to 33 months in prison, but the sentence was suspended because she was raising a young child.
In 2022, while out on bail, Yen continued to commit fraud in Hue and was sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Hue People's Court, but the sentence was suspended due to pregnancy. Yen is currently in Ca Mau and is subject to a travel ban.
In August 2022, lacking money for expenses and to buy drugs, Yen went online (Facebook) to gather information about the owners of social media accounts. After obtaining information about their family, friends, and communication methods, Yen bought disposable SIM cards, registered Viber accounts, and then impersonated relatives of the account owners to message them asking for money transfers, which she then stole.
Yen created a Facebook page named "Lien Nguyen" and then accessed artist TQA's personal page to find and obtain the phone number of NNT (artist A's manager). Yen bought two disposable SIM cards and created two Viber accounts, one under artist A's name and the other under the name Ngoc Thanh Tam.
Yen, posing as artist A, messaged manager T. about a trip to Thailand and asked T. to transfer money for plane tickets and hotels to an account under Yen's name. Seeing artist A's Viber account, T. trusted her and transferred a total of 98 million VND to Yen.
Seeing how easy it was, Yen used a Viber account under the name of artist A. to message Mr. T., asking him to transfer 100 million VND to artist A.'s mother in the US. Mr. T., suspicious, called the Viber number back, but Yen didn't answer. Realizing she had been exposed, Yen withdrew 98 million VND from the account, deleted the fake accounts, and discarded the two disposable SIM cards.
Mr. T. reported the incident to the District 1 Police, and within a short time, the District 1 Police traced the leads and arrested Yen.
At the investigative agency, Yen admitted to her fraudulent activities.
Because Yen was wanted by the Criminal Enforcement Agency of the Ca Mau Provincial Police, the District 1 Police compiled a file to arrest the wanted person and handed her over to the Ca Mau Provincial Police for processing.
