Male student prosecuted for plotting to defraud female delivery driver.
The police have just initiated a criminal case and charged Ho Tran Quoc Khanh (born in 2003, residing in Yen Thanh district, Nghe An province) with "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
The police in Bac Tu Liem district (Hanoi) have determined that Ho Tran Quoc Khanh was a student at a university in Hanoi.
Khanh discovered that the delivery driver in this area for the e-commerce platform S was Ms. H. Ms. H had a habit of only checking the successful transfer notification on the customer's phone, without checking her own account to see if the money had been received.
From then on, Khanh came up with an idea.fraud and misappropriation of propertyby faking images of successful money transfers on banking apps to steal money.
Specifically, on the afternoon of October 25th, Khanh ordered a Xiaomi 14 T Pro phone from the e-commerce platform S. for nearly 14 million VND. On the evening of October 28th, while tracking the shipping progress, Khanh learned that the order was expected to be delivered on the morning of October 29th.
Based on the recipient information that Khanh had saved from Ms. H. since October 25th, the male student joined photo editing groups on Facebook to ask people to help him create a confirmation image of a successful transfer of 13,805,000 VND. The transfer time was "10:54 - October 29, 2024". The recipient was "PHAM THI HUONG", the account number was 2207081814, opened at a bank in Hanoi. The transfer description was "NGUYEN DINH THANG transfer".
Around 10:00 AM on October 29th, Khanh received a call from Ms. H. but deliberately ignored it. Nearly 11:00 AM the same day, Khanh called Ms. H. again to arrange a delivery, aiming to match the transaction time in the image he had fabricated.
Afterward, Khanh went to the designated meeting point to pick up the goods and received the phone from Ms. H. Then, Ms. H. gave Khanh a QR code to scan and make the payment via bank transfer.
At this point, Khanh held up his phone, pretending to scan the payment code, and showed Ms. H. a pre-prepared image of a successful transfer before leaving with the phone.
About 20 minutes later, when she didn't see the transaction where Khanh transferred the money, Ms. H. went to the police station to report the entire incident.
At around 2 PM that same day, as Khanh was preparing to sell the phone, he was summoned to the police station for questioning.