Created fake Facebook to call for charity, embezzling billions of dong from benefactors
(Baonghean.vn) - Dung reused images and information about unfortunate situations, then edited and posted them on a fake Facebook page he created to appropriate more than 2.5 billion VND from thousands of donors and benefactors across the country.
On November 15, 2021, the Investigation Police Agency of Nghe An Province Police announced: they are temporarily detaining criminal suspect Tran Van Dung (born in 1996), residing in Viet Doan commune, Tien Du district, Bac Ninh province, to investigate and clarify the act of fraud.appropriation of property.
Previously, the Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department of Nghe An Province Police, through monitoring the situation on cyberspace, discovered that on Facebook, many charity groups regularly posted articles with pictures of children with congenital diseases, serious illnesses or unfortunate fetuses in need of money for treatment and burial coffins; notably, some subjects took advantage of the above information to call for charity and appropriate money.
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| Fake Facebook created by Tran Van Dung to call for donations and then appropriate them. Photo: Duc Vu |
Specifically, since May 2021, Tran Van Dung has been on Facebook and when he learned about many groups with charity activities, Dung had the idea of using fake Facebook accounts to post similar articles to many different groups but edited the content with the aim of making the social network community believe it was true, then transfer money to Dung to appropriate.
No sooner had he thought than he acted. Dung bought fake Facebook accounts and simultaneously posted many articles about difficult situations on many social media groups. Those articles attracted thousands of likes, hundreds of comments and shares from benefactors and philanthropists.
Through comments from the online community, Dung proactively texted benefactors via the Messenger app to chat as representatives of charitable organizations, providing false information about the origins of the circumstances, individuals, and organizations receiving charity money with the aim of defrauding them of larger amounts of donations.
Dung requested that all the money raised be transferred to his bank account. After donors and benefactors transferred money to Dung, he immediately withdrew the money in cash to spend or transferred it to other accounts of relatives.
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| Subject Tran Van Dung. Photo: Duc Vu |
The police seized 02 mobile phones, 03 bank cards, 01 laptop and 197 million VND.
During the investigation, the police determined that from May 2021 to the time of his arrest, Tran Van Dung had defrauded thousands of victims across the country through charity calls and appropriated money, including some benefactors in Nghe An province, with each victim receiving from several hundred thousand to tens of millions of VND, with the total amount of money the subject appropriated being more than 2.5 billion VND.
