Nghe An: Emergency arrest of 4 subjects impersonating experts, selling lottery results

Information from the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police said that the unit has just urgently arrested 4 subjects for fraud and property appropriation. These are 4 subjects in a high-tech fraud ring in the form of selling lottery results that the Criminal Police Department dismantled at the end of January 2019.

Subject Dinh Van Linh committed the largest fraud of 4 billion VND. Photo: Anh Quan

The subjects include Nguyen Xuan Doan (born in 1998, hamlet 13, Quynh Lam commune); Tran Van Trung (born in 1990, Ngoc Son commune, Quynh Luu district); Dinh Van Linh (born in 1994, Quynh Lam commune, Quynh Luu district) and Tran Van Tien (born in 1983, Ngoc Son commune, Quynh Luu district).

Previously, on January 17, the Criminal Police Department successfully broke up Project 119L, arresting 8 subjects for fraud and property appropriation. All of these subjects are very young, from 20 to 26 years old, from the same commune in Quynh Lam, Quynh Luu district. Their trick is to impersonate experts in analyzing lottery results, using social networking sites to set up lottery prediction services, get numbers, and single-number lottery with prices ranging from 1 million to tens of millions of VND.

Realizing that making money illegally is quite easy, these subjects spread the word, shared experiences to learn from each other. Each subject created a separate website to scam and attract victims, when the players lost a lot, they introduced them to the website of another subject.

The police have proven that the amount of money the scammers swindled was 26 billion VND. The investigation agency has also prosecuted 8 subjects and 8 different cases for investigation. After these 8 subjects were arrested, some other subjects fled the locality, even to Laos and Taiwan, continuing to commit fraud and evade the police.

8 subjects have been prosecuted. Photo: Document

Faced with that situation, the Criminal Police Department expanded the investigation of Project 119L phase 2. Using professional measures, the Project Board collected sufficient evidence and documents proving the criminal acts of the subjects and urgently arrested the subjects.

At the police station, the subjects admitted all their crimes. To conceal from the authorities, the subjects simultaneously created many different bank accounts and registered to use the Smartbanking service on mobile phones to control customers' transactions.

Money to buy lottery numbers is transferred by players to the subjects by scratching network cards and sending the card number to the subjects or transferring money to the subjects via bank accounts.

Through the bank account statements of the subjects, it was discovered that the subjects had defrauded hundreds of people from 500,000 VND to 50 million VND, the total amount of money each subject defrauded was up to billions of VND.

A transaction message was copied by the police.

Specifically, according to bank statements, Doan committed fraud of 1.6 billion VND; Trung 2 billion VND; Linh 4 billion VND and Tien 700 million VND. However, these are only newly verified figures, in reality, these subjects have committed fraud against many people in provinces and cities across the country with amounts that could reach tens of billions of VND.

At the police station, the subjects admitted all their crimes. The police found 5 victims, proving that the amount of money they were defrauded of was 93 million VND, of which each person lost 3 - 6 million VND to the subjects.