Hacker impersonates son to scam father out of money

On November 20, Nguyen Dang Hoang (22 years old) and his brother Nguyen Doan Huy (26 years old, both residing in Trieu Phong district, Quang Tri) were prosecuted and detained by Duc Tho district police for the crime ofFraudulent appropriation of property, according to Article 174 of the 2015 Penal Code.

According to the investigation, at the end of October, Hoang took over the Facebook account of Nguyen Trong Chiem, who was working in Japan. Hoang then pretended to be Chiem and texted his father, Nguyen Trong Vi, and his friend, Pham The Thanh (both residing in Duc Tho district), saying that he was providing a money transfer service from Japan to Vietnam for customers. For every 10 million VND successfully transferred, he would receive 1-2 million VND in profit, and proposed cooperation.

When Mr. Vi and Mr. Thanh accepted, FacebookNguyen Trong ChiemInformation that a customer in Japan wanted to transfer money to relatives in Vietnam, asked Mr. Vi and Mr. Thanh to transfer more than 150 million VND to a bank account namedNguyen Van Nhat HuyAfter the transaction in Vietnam is completed, the customer in Japan will deliver cash to Nguyen Trong Chiem, and he will send the principal and the difference to Mr. Vi and Mr. Thanh.

Believing him, Mr. Vi and Mr. Thanh transferred money into the account many times.Nguyen Van Nhat Huyover 155 million VND. Received money, Hoang locked FacebookNguyen Trong Chiem, cut off contact. He then asked his brother Nguyen Doan Huy to withdraw all the embezzled money and divide it for personal use.

From the victim’s complaint, Duc Tho District Police tracked down Hoang and Huy’s whereabouts in mid-November. The two suspects confessed that, using similar methods, they had defrauded another woman, appropriating more than 50 million VND.