5 people arrested for making scam calls
Dang Thanh Toai, 25 years old, and four accomplices pretended to be police officers and tricked people into transferring money to their accounts, then transferred it to a group of people in Taiwan.
Toai; Le Ngoc Quyen, 24 years old; Nguyen Tan Thang, 25 years old; Hoang Minh Tai, 27 years old and Nguyen Van Ro (28 years old, all residing in Dak Lak province) were temporarily detained by Quang Ngai Provincial Police for their behavior.Fraudulent appropriation of property,December 9th
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| Hoang Minh Tai, Dang Thanh Toai and Nguyen Van Ro at the police station. Photo:Heather |
According to the investigation agency, over the past two years, this group has made calls via the Internet, impersonating the phone numbers of police agencies, prosecutors... threatening many people involved in money laundering and drug trafficking rings that are being investigated. They then asked the victims to transfer money to bank accounts they opened with fake ID cards "for the police to verify and guarantee".
When the victims transferred money, this group used Internet Banking to buy cryptocurrency, or converted it to Chinese Yuan, transferred it abroad to Taiwanese and Vietnamese labor export groups, and then divided the profits.
Investigating the report of a resident in Quang Ngai who was scammed out of 6 billion VND.High-tech Crime Prevention Police Team(Criminal Police Department of Quang Ngai Province Police) discovered that the suspects had committed the act. Initially, this group confessed that the amount of money they had appropriated from people nationwide amounted to hundreds of billions of dong.
Major Le Thanh Long (Captain of the High-Tech Crime Prevention Police Team) said that when working, the prosecuting agencies (police, prosecutors, courts) all send direct invitations to citizens, not working over the phone and controlling like the tricks of the above scam group.