Prosecution of male student who schemed to defraud female shipper
The police have just initiated a case and prosecuted Ho Tran Quoc Khanh (born 2003, in Yen Thanh district, Nghe An) to investigate the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
Bac Tu Liem District Police (Hanoi) determined that Ho Tran Quoc Khanh was a student at a university in Hanoi.
Khanh discovered that the shipper delivering in this area for e-commerce platform S was Ms. H. Ms. H had a habit of only looking at the successful transfer notification on the customer's phone, without checking whether her account had received the money or not.
From there, Khanh had an idea.fraud and appropriation of propertyby faking the image of successful transfer confirmation on the banking application to appropriate money.
Specifically, on the afternoon of October 25, Khanh ordered a Xiaomi 14 T Pro phone from the S. e-commerce platform for nearly 14 million VND. On the evening of October 28, when tracking the shipping route, Khanh learned that the order was expected to be delivered on the morning of October 29.
Based on the information of Ms. H.'s recipient that Khanh had saved since October 25, this male student went to photo editing groups on Facebook to ask someone to help him create a photo confirming the successful transfer of 13,805,000 VND. The time of money transfer was "10:54 - October 29, 2024". The recipient was "PHAM THI HUONG", the account number to receive the money was 2207081814 opened at a bank in Hanoi. The content of the transfer was "NGUYEN DINH THANG transfer money".
At around 10am on October 29, Khanh received a call from Ms. H. but deliberately ignored it. At around 11am the same day, Khanh called Ms. H. back to make an appointment to receive the goods with the purpose of matching the transaction time on the image, which the male student had asked someone to fake.
Khanh then went to pick up the goods at the meeting point and was given the phone by Ms. H. After that, Ms. H. gave Khanh the QR code to scan and transfer payment.
At this time, Khanh raised his phone, pretended to scan the payment code and opened the image of the successful transfer that he had prepared in advance, showed it to Ms. H. and took the phone away.
About 20 minutes later, seeing no money transfer from Khanh, Ms. H. went to the police station to report the entire incident.
At around 2:00 p.m. the same day, Khanh was preparing to sell the phone when he was summoned to the police station for questioning.