Lost 800 million VND because of believing the invitation 'recruiting sales staff, attractive salary'

Dong Da District Police (Hanoi City) said they are urgently investigating the case of a woman who was recently scammed out of over VND800 million in a transfer from a form of recruiting online sales collaborators for e-commerce platforms.

According to the report, on February 7, Ms. H (born in 1984) in Dong Da district, Hanoi received an advertising invitation to become a Shopee sales collaborator, with an attractive salary. After participating in the job, Ms. H made friends with someone on Zalo and was instructed to pay for orders to be paid.enjoy commission.

Fraudulent sales representative models with attractive salaries are appearing frequently online.

This person then offered a very attractive "bait" such as each order would receive a 10-20% difference, causing Ms. H to believe it and pay for many orders with a total amount of more than 800 million VND but did not receive the principal and the discount back.

After that, the person who made friends with Ms. H on Zalo could no longer be contacted, and the sales page also disappeared. Realizing that she had been scammed, Ms. H went to Dong Da District Police to report the incident. Immediately upon receiving the report, the Investigation Police Agency of Dong Da District Police began investigating and verifying the incident.

Through the above incident, to proactively prevent crime, Hanoi City Police recommends that people raise their vigilance. When working as collaborators for companies, businesses, and suppliers of goods and services, people need to check clearly the information about the goods and suppliers through many different sources to verify the accuracy.

When detecting a case of fraud, people need to immediately report it to the police to quickly verify, prevent and handle violators according to the provisions of the law./.