Fraudulent sale of software to read messages and steal hundreds of millions of dong

The Criminal Police Department of Thanh Hoa Province Police has just prosecuted the case, prosecuted the accused and temporarily detained Nguyen Trung Hieu (born 1984) in Vinh Yen city, Vinh Phuc province for the act offraud and appropriation of property.

According to the investigation results: In order to have money to pay off debts, in early September 2023, Nguyen Trung Hieu came up with the idea of ​​defrauding and appropriating property by creating a website with an interface that showed that it was software to read Zalo and Facebook messages and locate phone numbers, but the nature of the software could not perform these functions.

Next, Hieu bought a fake Facebook account with many followers and changed the Facebook account name to "Family Technology Shop", posted his personal phone number and ran an advertisement with the content of a service to rent software to read Zalo and Facebook messages, and locate phone numbers to find customers who wanted to use the service to scam.

When customers contact the phone number or send messages via Facebook to ask to rent software services, Hieu sends messages listing the features and images of the software to customers. The features Hieu provides are fake and the software cannot perform.

When customers want to rent a service, Hieu will ask for fees such as: link creation fee, server rental fee, memory purchase fee, security bypass fee... Each fee is worth from 2 million to 3 million VND, depending on the service and increases according to the difficulty level of each service. After the customer has paid all the required fees, Hieu will block contact with the customer to appropriate the money they have sent.

Using the above tricks, from the beginning of September 2023 until his arrest, Hieu defrauded and appropriated hundreds of millions of dong from many people.