Lost 360 million VND because of listening to a phone call from a person impersonating a police officer
After listening to a phone call from a person claiming to be a police officer investigating a drug case, the woman transferred 360 million VND.
On March 7, a representative of Hai Ba Trung District Police, Hanoi City, said that the unit is coordinating with relevant agencies to investigate the case.impersonating police officer, defrauded and appropriated property worth 360 million VND from a woman residing in the area.
Previously, on March 4, this woman went to Le Dai Hanh Ward Police to report that she had received a phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer. This person informed her that he was investigating a drug case related to her and asked her to transfer money to him for verification.
After transferring 360 million VND into the account, the female victim realized she had been scammed and went to the police to report it.
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| The police agency received the victim's report. Photo: Hanoi City Police |
A representative of Hanoi City Police assessed that this is not a new trick, many victims have been deceived by this method before, the police have warned but this situation still recurs.
According to the police investigation, the scammers' method is to use high technology, anonymously using phone numbers identical to the public phone numbers of the police and the People's Procuracy to call the victims, informing them that they are being sued for debt or are involved in a case or special case that the police are investigating and verifying, and have an arrest warrant from the People's Procuracy...
When the victims are scared, the scammers ask the victims to declare their assets, current cash and deposits in bank accounts. Then they threaten and ask them to transfer money or read the OTP code so that they can transfer money to their accounts under the guise of verification and investigation.
A representative of Hanoi City police assessed that "most victims are often people who rarely update social and press information. When an incident occurs, the victim is afraid of losing reputation, so there will be cases where they do not report to the police, making it difficult for the investigation and handling."
According to the police agency's working process with citizens, they must directly send invitations and summonses or send them through the local police, and especially do not require citizens to transfer money to a bank account.
Therefore, the representative of Hanoi City Police recommends that "when detecting cases with signs of fraud as above, people need to immediately report to the nearest police agency and need to be vigilant, regularly propagate to relatives and friends about the above tricks, avoid falling into the trap of bad guys".
