Fraudulent sale of cheap airline tickets to appropriate property
When customers want to buy tickets, the subjects ask them to transfer money to their account before issuing tickets. After the customers transfer money, the subjects block communication and appropriate the money to buy tickets.
On June 21, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention of Quang Binh Provincial Police said that a joint force of Bo Trach District Police, Nam Dinh City Police (Nam Dinh Province) and a number of professional units of Quang Binh Provincial Police had successfully dismantled a fraud case involving the online sale of airline tickets.
Previously, through the work of grasping the situation, on the cyberspace emerged personal accounts, associations, and social network groups posting articles selling unusually cheap airline tickets to Vietnamese people living abroad (such as Canada, Germany, etc.).
When customers want to buy tickets, the subjects ask them to transfer money to their account before issuing tickets. After the customers transfer money, the subjects block communication and appropriate the money to buy tickets.
On June 19, Colonel Nguyen Huu Hop - Director of Quang Binh Provincial Police Department directed the investigation. Colonel Le Van Hoa - Deputy Director, Head of the Investigation Security Agency of Quang Binh Provincial Police Department, Head of the Special Investigation Committee directly directed the forces to summon and fight against the subject Tran Van Tinh (born in 1985, residing in Nang Tinh Ward, Nam Dinh City, Nam Dinh Province).
Initially, it was determined that taking advantage of overseas Vietnamese who wanted to return home, Tran Van Tinh purchased unregistered bank accounts on cyberspace, then posted articles selling airline tickets on his personal Facebook account or used his personal Facebook account to post articles selling airline tickets on pages and groups related to hunting for cheap airline tickets for overseas Vietnamese, with the purpose of fraudulently selling cheap tickets through unregistered bank accounts to appropriate property.
Initially, Tran Van Tinh used a new trick to commit fraud and appropriated property from 8 victims in many localities nationwide with a total amount of more than 203 million VND. Among them, Ms. LTHO, residing in Nhan Trach commune, Bo Trach district, Quang Binh, was defrauded and appropriated property worth 43.2 million VND.
The Investigation Police Agency of Bo Trach District Police has issued an emergency detention order and an emergency arrest order for Tran Van Tinh for fraud and property appropriation. At the same time, they temporarily detained 24.7 million VND, a savings book of 100 million VND, 2 mobile phones, 2 ATM cards, 52 SIM cards and some related documents.
Currently, the case is being further investigated and handled by the professional forces of Quang Binh Provincial Police.
