Looking for victims of impersonating Health Department Inspector to defraud bone and joint medicine

Xuan Mai April 2, 2024 06:18

The subjects impersonated Phan Thanh Hai - Inspector of the Department of Health, asked about the patient's health status and the medications they had used, then invited them to buy "Calium" and "Phuc Cot Don" from "Long Huong Pagoda" or "Health Support Center" for prices ranging from 1 million VND to 3 million VND per prescription.

On April 1, Hanoi City Police said that the Hanoi City Police Department is investigating a case of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" in the form of making phone calls to people with bone and joint diseases.

The subjects impersonating Phan Thanh Hai - Inspector of the Department of Health, asked about the patient's health status and the medications used, then invited them to buy "Calium" and "Phuc Cot Don" from "Long Huong Pagoda" or "Health Support Center" for a price ranging from 1 million VND to 3 million VND/1 prescription (from 1 to 3 boxes of the above medicine); along with a "Warranty Card".

On the front is the content "Warranty card for Vietnamese health"; BH code: 110299; refund 50 million VND if the customer discovers harmful substances in the product. On the back is the content: customer information. Customer name... Phone number...; commitment to the final treatment course, high content and intensive to help cure and prevent recurrence; improve over 90% of the disease (if not, the pharmacy will support for free until the disease is cured); at the same time, refund up to 80% of the treatment cost if the disease does not improve.

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Information written on the warranty card of the scammers.

The subject delivers medicine to the patient via EMS Vietnam or Viettel Post service, asking the delivery staff to collect money. Then, trick the patient into participating in the program to create a book to support free medical examination at Central hospitals or to receive one-time support with an amount from several tens of millions to several hundreds of millions of VND, on the condition that the book creation fee or value added tax must be paid to account number: 0775195475 at VPBank under the name of Vo Thi Chau Giang or account number: 28829072004 at Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank under the name of Nguyen Van Quang.

The investigation agency requests individuals who have had their property appropriated by the scammers using the above tricks to contact the Hanoi City Police Department of Investigation to work and provide information related to the case. For any information, please contact: Comrade Do Manh Cuong - Investigator of Team 5, Criminal Police Department of Hanoi City Police, phone number: 0912090990, address: No. 7 Thien Quang, Nguyen Du Ward, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi City.

Xuan Mai