Fraudulently running social media interactions, appropriating nearly 1.2 billion VND
After transferring money to Linh, Ms. H did not see an increase in the number of followers on her Facebook page and could not sell 50 orders/day as promised, so she urged the subject. At that time, Linh asked Ms. H to buy more interaction-increasing packages, confirm Facebook blue ticks, run interactions, run again due to errors..., to ask Ms. H to transfer more money to buy those service packages.
The subject is Ngo Nhat Linh (born in 1997, registered residence in Dong Tan commune, Ung Hoa district, Hanoi). Claiming to be a Facebook marketer, specializing in providing services such as increasing likes, increasing followers, comments..., supporting sellers to increase revenue, the subject has defrauded and appropriated nearly 1.2 billion VND from the victim.
Regarding the above case, on November 4, the Criminal Police Department of Hai Duong Provincial Police said: Based on the collected documents and evidence, on October 28, the Investigation Police Agency of Hai Duong Provincial Police issued a decision to prosecute the case; on November 1, issued a decision to prosecute the accused and an order to temporarily detain Ngo Nhat Linh to investigate the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
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Subject Ngo Nhat Linh. |
The case originated from a complaint filed by Ms. H (residing in Chi Linh, Hai Duong) to the Criminal Police Department of Hai Duong Provincial Police in October 2022.
According to victim H, around the beginning of July 2022, while selling online on Facebook, she met a person with a Facebook account named "Ngo Nhat Linh". After making friends and talking, this person introduced himself as a Facebook marketing specialist, providing services such as increasing likes, increasing followers, and comments to support sellers and increase revenue...
Because she needed a large amount of interaction to sell products, Ms. H agreed to buy from this person 2 service packages to increase the number of followers on her personal Facebook page with a total value of 850 thousand VND. Ms. H transferred this amount to a person named Linh via a bank account.
After the above transaction, around the end of July 2022, Linh continued to text Ms. H, introducing a sales interaction enhancement service package worth 9 million VND/package. During the transaction, the subject promised Ms. H that she would sell 50 orders/day, otherwise she would refund the entire amount. Trusting the subject's introduction, Ms. H transferred money to the account provided by the subject.
After transferring money to Linh, Ms. H did not see an increase in the number of followers on her Facebook page and could not sell 50 orders/day as promised, so she urged the subject. At that time, Linh asked Ms. H to buy more interaction-increasing packages, confirm the Facebook blue tick, run the interaction, run again due to errors..., to ask Ms. H to transfer more money to buy those service packages. Because she believed it was true, from July 29 to October 14, Ms. H transferred money many times to the bank accounts as requested by Linh, with a total amount of nearly 1.2 billion VND. However, Ms. H still did not receive the commitments as Linh said. Suspecting that she had been scammed and had her property appropriated, Ms. H reported it to the police.
Receiving the victim's complaint, the Criminal Police Department of Hai Duong Province Police investigated and clarified that the subject who committed the above act was Ngo Nhat Linh. At the police station, Linh confessed: After a few times of running the number of Facebook followers for Ms. H, the subject knew that the victim still needed to run interactions to sell products, so he came up with the idea of defrauding and appropriating property. At first, Linh provided information about a service package worth 9 million VND and asked Ms. H to transfer money to the account. Upon receiving the money, the subject transferred more than 1 million VND to another account to provide the service of pinning Ms. H's livestream link on Facebook.
When the customer contacted to request to speed up the commitment, Linh used a junk SIM card to register an account and then created conversations between Linh and a third party on Zalo and Messager platforms; the content showed that the subject had contacted Ms. H to provide Facebook marketing services, and at the same time the service provider also asked the customer to transfer money to implement these services... then took screenshots and sent them to Ms. H to strengthen trust.
With the above tricks, the subject has repeatedly tricked the victim into transferring money into the account. The entire amount of money, the subject used for personal expenses...
The case is currently being further investigated by the Criminal Police Department of Hai Duong Province Police.
