Fake ID card ring, creating bank accounts for fraud

Previously, at around 3:30 p.m. on October 3, an employee of Viettinbank branch 222 Phan Dinh Phung, Ward 1, Phu Nhuan District, received a young man who came to request to open a bank account. This person presented a citizen identification card (CCCD) number 096201523... bearing the name Vo Quoc Thanh. The bank employee carefully verified the information on the system and discovered that all the information matched but the person was incorrect.

Seeing signs of abnormality, the bank staff secretly reported to the local police. Immediately after, the police suddenly appeared and took the young man to the police station of Ward 1, Phu Nhuan District for questioning.

Given the complexity of the case, the Ward Police quickly transferred the initial file and the suspect to Phu Nhuan District Police for further investigation according to their authority.

Through investigation, the young man initially gave his name as Pho Lam Viet Tan, and admitted to using a fake ID card to open an account at the bank. During a quick search, the police seized another ID card number 095202516... from Tan, under the name Nguyen Van Hoa. From here, a network of fake documents was revealed.very sophisticated tricks.

According to Tan’s statement, he was hired by Le Van Diem to use a fake ID card to register a bank account. After completing the job, Tan would be paid from 700,000 VND to 1,000,000 VND/account.

Conducting an emergency search of Viet Tan's residence at 41/6 Nguyen Thai Son, Ward 4, Go Vap District, the police seized: 1 ID card number 091201543... in the name of Nguyen Hoang Ban, 1 ID card number: 094200522... in the name of Tran Van Duong.

Based on Tan's testimony, Phu Nhuan District Police quickly coordinated with the Ward Police to "invite" Le Van Diem to work. Diem confessed that he was hired by Sunaca (unknown identity) to manage 7 employees with accounts respectively: Lam Tan, Maxx, Bapn93, Tran Linh, Tobaco Bac Lieu Pop Chill, Khai and Ft.

Accordingly, these employees are responsible for using fake ID cards to register bank accounts. For each successful transaction, Diem is paid 1.2 million VND/account. Then, Diem pays to subordinates, so the specific benefit is 200,000 VND/account.

Based on the above information, Phu Nhuan District Police continued to take Hoang Van Tan (nickname Maxx, born in 1999, from Thua Thien Hue) to the headquarters. Similar to Viet Tan, this subject was hired by Diem to use a fake ID card to open a bank account and was paid 1 million VND/account.

At Van Tan's residence at 274/15 Nguyen Van Luong, Ward 17, Go Vap District, the Investigation Police Agency seized: 6 mobile phone SIM cards and 3 bank deposit receipts. Tan said that these SIM cards were used to open a bank account.

Continuing the investigation, Phu Nhuan District Police determined that ID card number 096201523... in the name of Vo Quoc Thanh and ID card number 095202516... in the name of Nguyen Van Hoa were directly forged by Tran Huu Phat and Nguyen Hong Phu. At Phu Nhuan District Police headquarters, Phat and Phu admitted to directly forging the above two ID cards at address 314/2 Huynh Tan Phat, Tan Thuan Tay Ward, District 7.

According to the statements of both, around March 2023, Phu went online on Facebook and saw that many customers needed to order fake ID cards to make bank cards. Therefore, Phu came up with the idea and together with Phat started making fake ID cards to resell for money to spend.

After that, the two went online to learn how to make fake ID cards. Phat rented a house at 300/23/21 Nguyen Van Linh, Binh Thuan Ward, District 7 to operate. On October 1, the two moved their "den" to 314/2 Huynh Tan Phat, Tan Thuan Tay Ward, District 7.

Phat and Phu said that when a customer ordered a fake ID card, Phu would go online to buy a real ID card from someone else or find a source at a hotel or motel and then bring it to Phat. Phat then used his personal computer to search for information, edit it according to the customer's request, then perform the next steps, and then give it back to Phu. Phu then took a photo and sent it to the customer. If the customer agreed, he would transfer the payment. Phu also took on the task of delivering the fake ID card to the customer or ordering a delivery vehicle.

With the above trick, from March 2023 until the time of discovery, the two subjects successfully forged 40 ID cards and delivered them to customers, each person benefited about 60 million VND.

Conducting an emergency search of the residence, which is also the place where Phat and Phu forged the CCCD at 314/2 Huynh Tan Phat, Tan Thuan Tay Ward, District 7, the police seized: 3 CCCD blanks (including 2 CCCD blanks with information and 1 blank blank), a computer, a printer and a number of other related items.

At the police station, the related subjects all confessed to their crimes. Based on the collected documents, considering the actions of Pho Lam Viet Tan (born in 2002; residing in Ward 4, Go Vap District), Le Van Diem (born in 1993; residing in Phan Rang - Thap Cham City, Ninh Thuan; temporarily residing in Ward 10, District 11); Tran Huu Phat (born in 1989; residing in Ward 5, District 3) and Nguyen Hong Phu (born in 2001; residing in Ward 2, District 10) showed signs of committing the crime of "Forgery of seals and documents of organizations"; "Using fake seals or documents of organizations", Phu Nhuan District Police urgently arrested the above 4 subjects to continue investigation and expansion.

Through this incident, the Police Department warns that the production, sale, storage and use of fake ID cards are illegal acts and will certainly be detected and strictly handled soon. Because fake ID cards with chips cannot be used, because when making transactions at agencies, units, banks... they will be quickly detected by inspection equipment, or through data comparison, identifying users with data and images stored in the database. And when detected, they will be immediately arrested and subject to very severe penalties under the law.