Create a fraudulent Facebook account to steal the deposit
Vu Duc Minh used the Facebook account “Dien May Anh Tuan” to join buying and selling groups and post many articles for sale. When someone asked to buy and agreed on a price, Minh asked the buyer to transfer a deposit to his bank account. Then he blocked communication and appropriated the money the buyer had transferred.
The High-Tech Crime Prevention Police Team under the Criminal Police Department of Thanh Hoa Province Police has just investigated, clarified and arrested Vu Duc Minh, born in 1993 in Pho Yen City, Thai Nguyen Province for the act offraud and appropriation of property
Previously, on May 11, the Criminal Police Department of Thanh Hoa Province Police received a complaint from Mr. LNT, born in 1997 in Quang Chau Ward, Sam Son City, about being scammed and having his property stolen by someone using the Facebook account “Dien may Anh Tuan”.
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| Subject Vu Duc Minh. |
According to Mr. LNT's report, because he is in the business of selling equipment and machinery, he often participates in social networking forums to exchange and buy and sell. On April 5, Mr. T. read a post by a person with the Facebook account "Dien may Anh Tuan" with the content "selling a tractor worth 35,000,000 VND". After negotiating a purchase and sale with the owner of the above account to buy the tractor for 32 million VND, Mr. T. transferred a deposit of 16 million VND to the account named Hoang Anh Tuan.
After receiving the deposit, the owner of the Facebook account "Dien may Anh Tuan" continued to call Mr. T. to say that he had a tractor head and a tractor milling machine for sale at 34 million VND. Because he wanted to buy, Mr. T. trusted him and transferred another 17 million VND as a deposit. After receiving the deposit, this subject asked Mr. T. to transfer another 1 million VND as a deposit, but Mr. T. did not agree, so the subject blocked all communication via Facebook and phone, forcing him to report to the police to investigate and clarify.
After receiving the report from Mr. T., the Criminal Police Department of the Provincial Police quickly began investigating and verifying that Vu Duc Minh was the perpetrator of the above fraud.
The subject initially confessed: From the beginning of 2022 until now, he has used the Facebook account "Dien May Anh Tuan" to participate in groups buying and selling goods on the social network Facebook, posting many posts advertising goods for sale (mainly electronics, refrigeration, industrial machinery, cars...). When someone asked to buy and agreed on the purchase price, this subject asked the buyer to transfer a deposit to a bank account. Then he blocked contact and appropriated the amount the buyer had transferred.
With the above tricks, Vu Minh Duc has defrauded and appropriated property of many people in many different localities with a total value of 50 to 200 million VND. Most recently, in addition to appropriating 33 million VND from Mr. LNT, Duc also defrauded and appropriated property of 2 victims (both in Thai Binh province) of 12 million VND each and blocked all communication with the victims.
