Fake summonses and arrest warrants 'trap' many people in Nghe An

The Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police has just issued a warning about a new scam that has trapped many people. Accordingly, in recent days, many people in Nghe An province have received "Summons", "Arrest Warrants for temporary detention" (or other orders and decisions of the Court, the Procuracy, and Investigation Agencies at all levels), while the recipients themselves have not violated anything.

Fake decision of the Supreme People's Procuracy. Photo provided by the police.

The subjects took advantage of the fear of some gullible people to defraud and appropriate property. According to an investigator, many people, out of fear, transferred more than 4 billion VND to the scammers after receiving the "Arrest Warrant for temporary detention" via the social network Zalo.

Nghe An police confirmed that these documents were fake and said that in the past, there had been many scams through calls claiming to be from the police, the prosecutor's office, etc., asking victims to transfer money to prove their innocence. The case of sending fake "summons", "arrest warrants"... is also one of the scams of criminals.

According to the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police, when they want to invite someone to work and summon them, there will be a representative of the investigation agency (Investigator, Investigation Officer) and the local police to send the paper, not sending the paper via social networks or by post.

In addition to creating fake Orders and Decisions as above, to make victims trust more, scammers also create Zalo, Facebook accounts, and websites impersonating police agencies to contact victims.

Fake summons sent by scammers to victims. Photo provided by police

If anyone receives such documents, please go to the nearest police station to report and provide those documents to the police. In particular, you need to be alert and not follow the instructions of the scammers.

Previously, on September 9, 2019, Nam Dan District Police also issued Document No. 25/CSDT-HS on disseminating methods and tricks of fraud via social networks. According to Nam Dan District Police, recently, the unit has received a number of reports of fraud and property appropriation with the following tricks: The subject has stolen the Facebook social network accounts of Vietnamese people living and working abroad (such as Japan, Korea...).

Fake Zalo account of the Criminal Police Department. Photo provided by the police

After stealing, taking advantage of the gullibility and worry of parents for their children/grandchildren, they contacted (called, texted) relatives and friends via Facebook, pretending to be their children/grandchildren with content such as: "Children/grandchildren are currently in dire need of money, please ask parents to transfer money to children/grandchildren urgently to solve work".

Afterwards, the relatives and family in the hometown subjectively believed that the child/grandchild was theirs, so they quickly transferred money into a bank account as requested by the subject without any suspicion. After the money transfer was successful, the subject continued to take advantage, demanding to deposit more money into the bank account.

At this time, their relatives suspected that they had been scammed, so they tried to find another way to contact their children/grandchildren abroad directly, only to find out that they had been scammed. When the family and relatives realized that they had been scammed, the subject withdrew all the money from the bank account and immediately blocked the victim's Facebook account.