Group of subjects impersonating telecommunications employees to defraud and appropriate property
To create trust, the subjects continuously provided false information about large prizes and asked the victims to pay a sum of money in the form of phone cards to "pay fees" and "complete procedures to receive the prize".
The Investigation Police Agency of Ky Anh District Police has just prosecuted and temporarily detained 5 subjects, including: Hoang Van Hung (born in 1990), Tran Cong Hoan (born in 2000), Tran Cong Dung (born in 1991), Tran Cong Tuan (born in 1996), all residing in Xuan Ha village, Lam Hop commune, Ky Anh district, Ha Tinh province and Dinh Thi Thom (born in 1976), residing in Dan Tien commune, Khoai Chau district, Hung Yen province, for fraud and appropriation of property. The group of subjects meticulously planned and coordinated to carry out a series of frauds with very sophisticated tricks.
Since May 2024, due to lack of stable jobs, the group of subjects including Hung, Hoan, Dung and Tuan planned to commit fraud. They used "junk" phone numbers (non-owner SIM cards) to randomly call many people to find victims.
After someone answered the phone, the subjects claimed to be telecommunications employees and informed the victim that he had won big prizes such as cash and a SH motorbike in the company's customer appreciation program.
To gain trust, the subjects continuously provided false information about the big prizes and asked the victims to pay a sum of money in the form of buying phone cards to "pay the fee" and "complete the procedure to receive the prize". After the victims bought the cards and provided the card codes to the subjects, they quickly transferred these card codes to Dinh Thi Thom to sell and share the stolen money.
Specifically, in two typical fraud cases: In the first case on June 17, Hoang Van Hung, along with his accomplices Dung, Tuan and Hoan, committed fraud against Mr. Nguyen Van Sinh (residing in Vung Tau City). They announced that Mr. Sinh had won 200 million VND and a SH motorbike, and asked him to pay the "prize receiving fee" by phone scratch card.
Trusting him, Mr. Sinh bought and submitted many scratch cards with a total value of up to 74.5 million VND. After appropriating this amount of money, the subjects divided the proceeds and continued to deceive the victim by asking for more money to complete the procedure to receive the prize.
In the second case on June 30, the group continued to commit similar fraud against Mr. Gia Mi Gia (residing in Ha Giang province). This time, they announced that Mr. Gia had won 200 million VND and a SH motorbike. After asking him to buy phone cards to complete the registration procedure and pay the fee, the group took a total of 53 million VND from Mr. Gia.
In this case, Dinh Thi Thom (born in 1976), residing in Dan Tien commune, Khoai Chau district, Hung Yen province, was the person who supported the scammers by providing unregistered "junk" SIM cards for the subjects to use in the process of defrauding the victims. In addition, Thom also committed to buying back the scratch card codes that the scammers had appropriated, at a value of 60% of the original price. After that, Thom sold these card codes to other sources to make a profit.
Currently, the case is still being further investigated by the authorities to clarify further violations and strictly handle them according to the provisions of the law.