Fake Facebook page to sell products to scam hundreds of millions of dong

On March 31, the Investigation Police Agency of Hanoi City Police arrested two subjects, Nguyen Duc Anh (born in 1992, Hoa Lu, Ninh Binh) and Nguyen The Dung (born in 1993, Hoa Lu, Ninh Binh) to clarify the act of "Using computer networks, telecommunications networks, the Internet or digital devices to commit acts of property appropriation."

Previously, the High-Tech Crime Prevention Police Department (PC50) - Hanoi City Police discovered a group of people impersonating the accounts of reputable online shops on Facebook to trick customers into transferring money to their accounts and then taking possession of them.

During the investigation, PC50 identified many people who lost money when buying handbags from the Facebook account "Trinh Thu Huyen." One victim transferred up to 37 million VND to the group of scammers to buy handbags.

On March 26, the investigation agency invited Ms. NTPT (a student at a college in Hanoi) to the investigation agency to work. Ms. NTPT is one of the people whose name is on the account that the victims of fraud transferred money to.

At the investigation agency, Ms. T stated that she lent her account number to her cousin, Nguyen The Dung, to transfer money into the account since February 2015. After the customer transferred 10 million into the account, Dung called and asked her to transfer 9.8 million to another account named Tung. Dung gave her the remaining amount and said it was a transfer fee.

Immediately afterwards, PC50 established a working group in coordination with Ninh Binh Provincial Police to summon Nguyen The Dung and Nguyen Duc Anh to the investigation agency for questioning.

Through the investigation and exploitation of the subjects, the initial investigation agency clarified that around November 2014, Duc Anh invited The Dung to go online to learn how to create fake Facebook accounts of reputable online shops on the Internet with the purpose of defrauding and appropriating the assets of customers who buy online.

After that, Duc Anh and Dung created a fake Facebook page named "Trinh Thu Huyen" similar to the real Facebook page "Trinh Thu Huyen" (this is a real online handbag shop) and copied all the information, pictures, addresses, posts... from the original Facebook to post on the fake Facebook. In addition, the subjects used the fake Facebook to make friends with customers who needed to buy handbags in the friend list of the real Facebook "Trinh Thu Huyen".

After creating a fake Facebook that looked real, the subjects tricked customers who wanted to buy handbags into transferring money to order bags into one of the 5 accounts they borrowed. When the customers transferred money, they immediately withdrew it.

Duc Anh confessed that because he lost his ID card and had not had time to get a new one, he discussed with Dung to borrow ATM accounts from acquaintances to receive money from the victims.

Initially, the investigation agency determined that with the above tricks, the subjects Nguyen Duc Anh and Nguyen The Dung appropriated more than 100 million VND and used this money for personal spending.

Currently, Hanoi City Police continue to investigate and expand the case./.

According to Vietnam+