Scamming people into paying job application deposits and then stealing the money.
From March 2023 until her arrest, Nguyen Thi Thanh (born in 1985) defrauded more than 200 people, appropriating a total of nearly 2 billion VND…
According to the initial investigation results of the Criminal Police Department of Thanh Hoa Provincial Police, Nguyen Thi Thanh is an unemployed individual who often rents apartments in Thanh Hoa City to live in.
However, wherever Thanh went, she introduced herself as having connections with many people who could help her get a job at large companies with a stable income ranging from 10 million to 30 million VND (depending on the job position).
To be hired by the company, each person must deposit between 5 million and 10 million VND, which will be returned after 3 months of employment. For those wishing to secure a passenger transport job, the deposit must be between 10 million and 30 million VND; if the employee does not quit after 2 years of employment, the deposit will be fully refunded.
Trusting Thanh's promises, many people transferred money to her account as deposits, hoping to secure stable jobs. However, Thanh defrauded them all of a large sum of money. To date, approximately 200 people have been scammed through this job placement scheme, losing nearly 2 billion VND.
For example, Mr. BVT, born in 1980 and residing in Tecco apartment building, Dong Huong ward, Thanh Hoa city, transferred over 400 million VND in deposits to Thanh multiple times to secure jobs for some of his relatives. After numerous promises, his relatives still did not get jobs, and only then did Mr. T realize he had been scammed. He then filed a report with the Criminal Police Department of the Provincial Police.
The Criminal Police Department has now initiated a criminal case, charged and temporarily detained Nguyen Thi Thanh on charges of "fraudulent appropriation of property"; and is continuing to expand the investigation into the case.
