More than 30 women lost money because they believed their 'foreign boyfriends' gave them valuable gifts
Hang and Quy are links in a transnational fraud ring that pretends to be rich, lonely foreigners to get to know rich, gullible women to swindle money.
On August 2, the Hanoi Police Investigation Agency completed the investigation conclusion and requested the People's Procuracy at the same level to prosecute Truong Thi My Hang, born in 1989, and her younger brother Truong Thai Quy, born in 1998, for the crime.Cheatappropriation of property, according to Clause 4, Article 174, Penal Code.
Before that, around March 2016, Hang went to Cambodia to do business and met a group of Vietnamese people, including Tran Minh Tuan (residing in Tien Giang province) and a foreigner commonly known as BBK (nationality unknown).
When she learned that this group specialized in impersonating express delivery or customs employees to commit phone scams, Hang agreed to join the criminal gang and invited Quy to join.
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In March 2020, Hang and Quy were assigned by Tuan's group to return to Vietnam. Quy went to buy a series of bank accounts of many people for the victims to transfer money into. Hang would pretend to be an employee of an international shipping company.
According to the investigation, in May 2020, Tuan's group used a Facebook account with the fake name Jame Sill, living in the UK, and then got acquainted with Ms. NTT (born in 1991, living in Nam Tu Liem district, working in business).
Through many conversations, Ms. T. got "foreign boyfriend"promised to give an expensive gift. After Tuan provided Ms. T.'s information, Hang pretended to be an employee of a delivery company and called the victim to ask her to transfer 12.5 million VND to pay for the shipping fee of a valuable gift. Believing the scammers, Ms. T. transferred the money to the bank account provided by Quy.
In early June 2020, Tuan and Hang continued to use multiple phone numbers, calling and texting to ask Ms. T. to transfer more money to cover customs clearance costs because the package was related to money laundering activities. Fearing being implicated, the victim transferred more than 1 billion VND to Tuan's group many times.
On June 25, 2020, Ms. T. did not receive the package and thought she had been scammed, so she filed a complaint with the Nam Tu Liem District Police.
After collecting evidence, the police arrested Hang and Quy. When verifying the background of Tran Minh Tuan and some related people, the investigation agency found that they had left the locality a long time ago, and their current residence was unknown, so they separated the documents for later processing.
During the investigation, Hang also confessed to participating in nearly 30 other fraud cases, receiving a profit of 300 million VND, but the defendant did not remember the information of the victims, so the authorities separated the file to continue clarifying.