Set a trap to scam people by texting to win prizes…

The "authors" of this scam are Le Chi Thien and Van Phu Hoang (both 22 years old), from Nam Phuoc town, Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province).

Two subjects Thien and Hoang

The couple was prosecuted by the Criminal Police Department of Hai Duong Province Police for fraud and property appropriation. According to the suspects' statements, as of August 11, Thien and Hoang had appropriated more than VND200 million from many victims. Their modus operandi was to send fake winning messages from Facebook accounts to random personal accounts. When the account owners contacted them by phone, Thien and Hoang would ask the victims to pay money to receive gifts. In these cases, Thien played the role of mastermind.

Around the beginning of May 2015, Thien discussed with Duong Quoc Vinh (22 years old, in Quang Nam) to commit the crime together. The two subjects registered to buy the domain name http://quavnn.com and asked the administrator of the website http://tenmien... to put the information of Thien and Vinh's two phone numbers on the above website. To deceive the victims, Thien's phone number was under the fake name Tu; Vinh's phone number was under the fake name Vu.

Thien and Vinh then created a Facebook account called “Message to you”, and sent winning messages to the Facebook accounts of anyone they found online. Among them, there was the account number of Ms. Phan Thi Thu (residing in Tranh Xuyen village, Dong Tam commune, Ninh Giang district, Hai Duong province).

Believing in the information she received via Facebook, Ms. Thu contacted Thien and was instructed to pay 4.5 million VND for the shipping fee of the winning motorbike by sending the serial code of the mobile phone top-up card. Ms. Thu bought a total of 21 mobile phone top-up cards with the above amount and read it over the phone for Thien to record to top up the game account. After that, Thien asked Ms. Thu to pay 5 million VND for the discount of the 50 million VND gift and more than 7.3 million VND for the motorbike tax. Once again, the young girl sent more than 12 million VND to the account that Thien provided and called the subject to confirm. Seeing that it was too good, Thien continued to ask Ms. Thu to compensate Thien 800,000 VND by buying phone top-up cards.

At the same time, knowing that Hoang was using a bank account that Hoang had appropriated from someone else to commit fraud, Thien asked Hoang to let him use the same account. The two agreed that if the amount of money transferred to the bank account was greater than 10 million VND, Hoang would receive 15%. If the amount of money appropriated was less, Hoang would receive 10%. Hoang agreed and gave Thien the account number, the account holder's name was Nguyen Dac Tri (this account was appropriated by Hoang via the Internet but did not have an ATM card).

Receiving the victim's report, the Criminal Police Department of Hai Duong Province Police conducted an investigation and quickly identified the perpetrators as Thien and Hoang. The Investigation Police Department is consolidating the case file to prosecute Duong Quoc Vinh./.

According to Capital Security