Hacking Facebook and pretending to be relatives abroad, 2 subjects appropriated billions of dong

Hue City Police (Thua Thien Hue Province) said that the unit has just successfully broken up a case, thereby arresting two subjects Nguyen Minh Vu (born in 1990, residing in Ward 1, Quang Tri Town) and Hoang Thanh Sang (born in 2000, residing in Trieu Phong District, Quang Tri Province) to investigate and clarify the act of using computer networks, telecommunications networks, and electronic means toappropriation of property.

Subject Hoang Thanh Sang (far right corner) at Hue City Police.

Previously, Hue City Police received many petitions from victims reporting that they had been scammed and had their property appropriated via the internet by hacking social media accounts and impersonating relatives to defraud and appropriate property.

Identifying this as a high-tech crime operating in cyberspace, Hue City Police established a special project to fight and clarify. On March 8, Hue City Police coordinated with the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department and the Technical Department of Thua Thien Hue Province Police to arrest Nguyen Minh Vu when Vu appeared in Hue City.

Subject Nguyen Minh Vu.

Next, the task force arrested Hoang Thanh Sang at a motel in Da Nang city.

At the police station, Vu and Sang initially confessed to having committed 3 cases of property appropriation worth more than 1.2 billion VND.

Specifically, on January 7, Vu and Sang hacked the Facebook of a relative of Mr. Le Hoang BL (born in 1985, residing in Phuoc Vinh ward, Hue city) who was abroad. After that, the subjects texted Mr. L. that they would transfer money from abroad. The subjects provided Mr. L. with a link and asked him to enter his account information and enter the OTP code according to the instructions, then immediately after that, 50 million VND was deducted from Mr. L.'s account.

The case evidence was seized by the police.

With the above trick, on January 24, Vu and Sang appropriated 74.5 million VND from Mr. Nguyen D.H. (born in 1975, residing in Phu Nhuan ward, Hue city). Previously, in December 2020, Vu and Sang appropriated 1.1 billion VND from Mr. Nguyen Quang H. (born in 1971, residing in Cau Giay district, Hanoi city).

On March 18, on behalf of the Party Committee and the Board of Directors of Thua Thien Hue Provincial Police, Colonel Dang Ngoc Son - Deputy Director of the Provincial Police commended and awarded 20 million VND to the Hue City Police Department's investigation team for their successful work in cracking a high-tech fraud case.