Nghe An: Arrested a gang of job scammers who appropriated tens of billions of dong

On March 19, Vinh City Police said that the unit had just arrested two subjects related to the drug ring.job scamUsing many sophisticated tricks, the subjects in this ring have appropriated tens of billions of dong from more than 200 victims.

Recently, in response to information about the emergence of a group specializing in job fraud, causing public outrage, Vinh City Police urgently took action to verify, investigate and clarify. Using professional measures, detectives identified the subjects related to the above fraud group and established a special project to fight.

Police work with suspect Tran Anh Tuan. Photo: Trong Tuan

During the investigation, the Task Force identified the subjects involved as Tran Van Quan, born in 1987, residing in Block 12, Truong Thi Ward, Vinh City, Nghe An Province and Tran Anh Tuan, born in 1984, residing in Xuan Hai Commune, Nghi Xuan District, Ha Tinh Province. On the morning of March 18, the Criminal Police Department of Vinh City Police coordinated with the Police of Truong Thi Ward, Quan Bau Ward and other interdisciplinary forces to organize emergency detention, search the residence and arrest the above subjects.

Accordingly, Tuan and Quan took advantage of the gullibility of many people, especially those who were looking for jobs or relatives of recent graduates who were looking for jobs for their children, to approach and commit fraud.

The two subjects discussed and assigned tasks to carry out the crimes very carefully with many sophisticated tricks. Accordingly, to commit the crimes, Tuan and Quan impersonated the heads of human resources departments of agencies and organizations in the area, forged documents and seals of centers, agencies, organizations, etc.

Searching the house of suspect Tran Van Quan. Photo: Vuong Linh

Quan and Tuan agreed to post fake information about recruitment campaigns of local agencies and organizations on social networks and posted their phone numbers on social networks to “recruit workers and jobs”. Quan was the one who directly received the applications and contacted the victims. After receiving the victims’ applications, the two subjects gave prices for the desired recruitment positions, with prices ranging from 50 million to a billion VND.

After luring their "prey", in order to gain the victims' trust, Quan and Tuan also rented public places such as hotels and set a date to invite the victims to conduct "personnel interviews". To prepare for this, the subjects forged many types of documents such as employee cards of agencies, organizations and companies to deceive the victims into thinking that this was an interview of the recruiting agencies.

After the interview, the subjects drafted a labor contract for the job applicant to sign. Then, using sophisticated tricks such as scanning and photocopying, the two subjects forged a seal to complete the labor contract and sent it back to the victim.

More than 200 job applications of scam victims. Photo: Trong Tuan

With the above tricks, the two subjects Quan and Tuan received documents and money from hundreds of victims in the localities. During the investigation, the authorities seized 218 sets of documents, 01 car, 01 laptop, 05 mobile phones, many types of documents, fake seals and 1 billion 150 million VND. Initial determination, the estimated amount of money the subjects appropriated from the victims was up to about 20 billion VND.

The case is currently under investigation by the authorities.