Get account setup for seniors and then 'swallow' the subsidy money

Nong Cong District Police, Thanh Hoa Province has just initiated a case, prosecuted the accused and temporarily detained Nguyen Thi Minh, born in 1990 in Yen Qua 1 village, Trung Thanh commune, Nong Cong district to investigate and clarify the act of stealing property in a bank account...

According to the Investigation Police Agency of Nong Cong District Police, from October 2022 to early November 2022, Nong Cong District Police continuously received many reports from people in Te Loi, Trung Thanh, and Trung Chinh communes (most of whom are elderly people) about a subject stealing money from their bank accounts, causing panic and anxiety among the people.

Typically, in October 2022, a subject (a woman) came to Mr. D.KD's house in Yen Bai village, Te Loi commune, Nong Cong district to borrow his phone, then arbitrarily transferred money from his bank account (this is the account that receives monthly allowances) to another account with an amount of nearly 4.8 million VND. Then, on November 5, Mr. D received a text message informing him that more than 2.3 million VND had been deducted from his account. According to the victim's report, the total amount deducted from the account was 6.7 million VND.

Subject Nguyen Thi Minh at the police station.

Immediately after receiving the report, Nong Cong District Police coordinated with Te Loi, Trung Thanh, and Trung Chinh Commune Police to urgently review, verify, and investigate the case. Through information provided by the victims and professional measures, on November 22, Nong Cong District Police identified Nguyen Thi Minh as the perpetrator of the above thefts.

At the police station, Nguyen Thi Minh confessed that she had taken advantage of her previous position as a contract employee of a telecommunications company assigned to directly pay salaries and allowances to rural retirees and part-time cadres currently living in Te Loi, Trung Thanh and Trung Chinh communes, Nong Cong district. During her work, because she directly guided people to register for accounts to pay salaries, Nguyen Thi Minh learned that the bank accounts and account passwords of customers were installed on smartphones.

Since November 5, Nguyen Thi Minh quit her job at the above company but because she knew the time when customers were paid their monthly salaries and allowances into their accounts. Taking advantage of this, Nguyen Thi Minh went to meet customers and told them that they needed to change the account passwords that were set on their smartphones. Because many people were not proficient in technology and were not vigilant, they asked Minh to do it for them on their phones. Just waiting for that, Nguyen Thi Minh transferred money from the customer's account to her own account.

With the above method, from October 2022 until her arrest, Nguyen Thi Minh successfully carried out the fraud against 21 account holders in Te Loi, Trung Thanh, and Trung Chinh communes, with a total amount of VND 96,679,000 embezzled. The case is currently under further investigation.

We recommend that people who are victims of the subject related to the above case contact the Investigation Police Agency of Nong Cong District Police to report and resolve the case, phone number: 02373.839003.

Through the above case, the Investigation Police Agency of Nong Cong District Police recommends to the people: Recently, the situation of theft and fraud crimes to appropriate property through bank accounts has become increasingly complicated with many sophisticated methods and tricks, causing great damage to property and causing public outrage. To proactively prevent this type of crime, it is recommended that people when using services on the Internet must raise their vigilance, absolutely do not provide, exchange, or share personal information on social networks. Regularly check and update security and privacy features on social network accounts, emails, and bank accounts. In all cases, do not lend or rent personal documents such as: citizen identification cards, household registration books or bank cards, do not sell, lend, or rent bank accounts, do not receive bank transfers or receive bank transfers from strangers.