Timely prevent a group of people from tricking the elderly into buying expensive goods under the guise of 'giving gifts'

On April 18, a leader of the People's Committee of Hung Thanh commune (Yen Thanh district) said that the local government had just promptly prevented a group of people from coming to the area to sell goods with signs of fraud.

Accordingly, on April 11, a group of three men appeared at a household in Ngoc Thanh hamlet (Hung Thanh commune) and asked to put up a billboard to sell goods to approach people. This group of people said that if they were allowed to put up a billboard, people would be paid 500,000 - 600,000 VND/month.

After the household agreed, the group promised "there will be a gift of gratitude at noon" and asked the household head to invite 10-15 people to receive the gift. The people this group targeted were mainly the elderly.

At noon, about 10 people came and were introduced to functional food products by the group with prices starting from 200,000 VND/product. Some people, after hearing the introduction, spent money to buy because they thought it was cheap and good for the body. More surprisingly, after the people bought the products, the group returned the money.

Using the same trick, this group continued to sell better medicine products for 400,000 VND, then 700,000 VND. After buying, this group returned the money to the people.

"Buying goods without having to pay made many people excited and gradually let their guard down. When the products were worth 2 million VND, this group quickly sold them and tried to escape. However, the authorities arrived in time to stop them, and one person quickly escaped. The district police are working with the remaining two people," said the leader of Hung Thanh commune.

According to the commune leader, a few days earlier, this group had defrauded many people in Tien Thanh commune of about 30 million VND. After hearing that the group had been invited to the police station for questioning, many victims went to the district police station to report the matter.

Previously,in Tan Ky districtA similar incident also occurred. Specifically, on September 14 and 15, 2023, Nguyen Thi Lanh and her accomplices rented Dai Phu Gia Hotel in Tan Ky district under the pretext of organizing a conference to thank customers, then sold many products such as household appliances and high-priced functional foods.

Most of the items have a real value of less than 1 million VND, but with many tricks of "buying goods and returning money", this group tricked the elderly into selling them at prices up to 10 times higher, then took advantage of people's carelessness, and after receiving the money, the subjects fled.

So far, Tan Ky District Police have prosecuted and arrested 4 subjects for defrauding customers. The authorities have also temporarily detained and recovered assets related to the case, estimated to be worth nearly 1 billion VND./.