Made up story about mother having an accident to defraud students of their property

On June 27, District 3 Police, Ho Chi Minh City are consolidating the case file to handle Nguyen Vu Kim Linh (born 1981, residing in District 4) for the act of "fraud and appropriation of property”. Linh is a subject with 2 previous convictions for the same crime mentioned above.

Before that, D.BH (born in 2008, living in District 3) finished school and cycled home on Hoang Sa Street. When they were about 200m away from school, Linh approached and pretended to ask, "Is there a public phone nearby?". H replied, "I don't know!". Linh started crying and said that Linh's mother had been in a traffic accident and wanted to borrow H's phone to call her relatives. H. did not lend it to her, but gave Linh 100,000 VND and then cycled away.

Subject Linh.

Linh still followed H. to the front of the Church on Ky Dong Street, Ward 9, District 3, swearing that H. would help take care of her mother who had an accident, promising to pay her back. H. felt sorry for her and gave her another 180,000 VND. Linh used many stories about her pitiful situation to appeal to H.'s pity. Because she had no money, H. took Linh home and gave her a laptop, an iPad, and a cell phone.

Before giving the property, H. wanted Linh to take her to the hospital to see if her mother had really been in a traffic accident. Linh pretended to take H. to the front gate of An Sinh Hospital (Phu Nhuan District) and continued to say that the property H. gave her was not enough to pay the hospital bill. H. remembered that she had another laptop at home and gave it to Linh. The total value of the property H. gave Linh was about 60 million VND.

Evidence.

Linh gave the reason that her mother was transferred to a hospital in District 2 for treatment, which was very far away, so she promised that after taking care of her mother, she would return the property to H. that afternoon. Waiting until evening and not seeing Linh, H. told her parents about the above story. Knowing that their child had been deceived, H.'s parents went to the District 3 Police to report.

From the characteristics that H. described, along with camera images at the locations where Linh deceived H., District 3 Police quickly arrested Linh and recovered her property. Linh said that she took the risk because she had a young child and no job. However, with Linh's two previous convictions and the previous charge of "Fraudulent appropriation of property", District 3 Police determined that Linh was a professional scammer, preying on the sympathy of victims to take their property. District 3 Police suspected that there were many other victims who fell into Linh's trap, so they expanded the investigation of the case and searched for Linh's victims to consolidate the case file.