52 Chinese arrested for transnational fraud

A group of Chinese people were arrested at two villas in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City while using high technology to defraud people in mainland China.

A group of Chinese people using high-tech fraud were previously arrested by the Ministry of Public Security.

Confirming with the press on the afternoon of December 6, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Sy Quang - Deputy Chief of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Office said that Ho Chi Minh City Police had coordinated with District 2 Police, Ho Chi Minh City to arrest 52 Chinese people to clarify the act of using high technology to commit transnational fraud.

Accordingly, on the morning of December 6, more than 50 police officers from the professional units of the two agencies simultaneously raided two villas located on Nguyen Van Huong Street, Thao Dien Ward, District 2, catching 51 Chinese nationals in the act of using high technology for fraud purposes.

Immediately after that, the police ambushed and arrested another leader who was waiting for a taxi and escaped from the scene.

The seized items included 21 laptops, 18 internet modems, 58 voice IPs, 77 landline phones, 25 mobile phones, and nearly 80 million VND, 6,000 USD, and more than 127,000 Yuan. In addition, the police also seized more than 200 scripts that the Chinese group used to defraud the victims.

Technology of foreign fraud gangs

According to the investigation, a group of Chinese people entered Vietnam.Maleas tourists, then divided into many other small groups. They do not stay in one fixed place but take turns moving from one country to another, mainly countries in the Southeast Asia region. The longest they stay in each country is about 1 month.

The victims they target are people in mainland China, Taiwan or overseas Chinese living in many Southeast Asian countries.

The above gang's method was to rent houses, villas... to create a "film studio" to scam. Initially, they called mainland China to approach rich people with bank accounts, then pretended to be police, tax officers, bank employees... to inform the victims that their accounts had been hacked, asking the victims to provide passwords - account numbers to help protect, block... After "stealing" data from the victims, they used tricks to steal all the money in the victims' accounts. To create trust, the scammers created sounds and noises right at the "film studio" such as police sirens, the sound of investigators reporting to their bosses...

It is known that to discover this gang, the Vietnamese police have exchanged information and coordinated the investigation with their Chinese and Taiwanese colleagues. According to the Ho Chi Minh City police, the number of victims of this gang is very large; the police are currently expanding the investigation and clarifying.

According to Vietnamnet-M