Another online fraud case in Nghe An was prevented

On November 2, the leader of Xuan Thanh Commune Police (Yen Thanh) said that the unit had just supported and prevented bad guys from continuously scamming citizens in the area via social networks.
Accordingly, on the afternoon of November 1, Lieutenant Colonel Ngo Anh Tuan - Chief of Xuan Thanh Commune Police received a phone call from a friend of Mr. NTV (33 years old, residing in Xuan Thanh Commune) about suspicions that Mr. V. was being scammed by a bad person in the form of "doing a duty" on social networks.

Lieutenant Colonel Tuan then asked this person to take Mr. V. to the commune police headquarters to investigate the case. However, when arriving at the police headquarters, Mr. V. still did not believe he was scammed, insisting that completing this task would be rewarded with an iPhone 15 promax. The commune police chief then had to spend nearly an hour analyzing and explaining but still could not convince the victim. Only when Lieutenant Colonel Tuan used this person's telegram account to enter the chat group, exposing the tricks of the scammers, did Mr. V. believe he was scammed.

According to the 33-year-old man, at noon on November 1, an acquaintance transferred 150 million VND to his account to solve a problem. A moment later, a Zalo account messaged him, inviting him to join a telegram group. In this chat group, he was invited to participate in the task of placing orders on the Tiki e-commerce platform, without any fees, and the commission rate was up to 30%.

Following the "team leader's" instructions, Mr. V. deposited 8.9 million VND to buy goods, then received the principal and commission back. Seeing how easy it was to make money, when the "team leader" suggested continuing with the 2nd and 3rd tasks, Mr. V. did not hesitate to immediately deposit 91 million VND. However, this time, Mr. V. did not receive the principal and commission back. On the contrary, the "team leader" suggested he continue with the 4th task.

According to the "team leader's" instructions, if he paid 100 million VND to place an order, Mr. V. would be refunded the principal, commission, and the amount spent on the two previous tasks, plus a reward of an iPhone 15 promax. Because his account only had more than 50 million VND left, not enough to "perform the task", Mr. V. called his relatives to borrow money. Knowing the purpose of Mr. V.'s loan, his relatives immediately reported it to the police to stop it.

"Fraudulent behavior in the form of performing tasks on social networking platforms is not new. We have propagated a lot about these scams to alert people, but unfortunately many people still do not pay attention, leading to being scammed of large sums of money," said Lieutenant Colonel Ngo Anh Tuan.

A few days ago, also in Nghe An, Thanh Lien Commune Police (Thanh Chuong District) also promptly prevented a similar incident. Accordingly, on October 30, Mr. T.D.T. (Thanh Lien Commune) received a call informing him that his phone number was not his own and would be blocked in both directions in 2 hours. They asked to add him as a friend on Zalo for instructions. After Mr. T. agreed to add him as a friend, they asked him to provide his ID number and asked if he had any savings.

After Mr. T. said he had 3 savings books of 290 million VND, they said that through checking the information, Mr. T. was related to a bank account in Da Nang, with a huge amount of money that was suspected to be related to drug crimes... Then, they connected with another person, claiming to be a prosecutor of the Da Nang City Procuracy and continued to threaten that if Mr. T. did not comply, he would be arrested. They asked Mr. T. to go to the bank to withdraw 290 million VND and transfer that amount to the account number they provided and would return it to Mr. T. if he was not related to drugs.

Mr. T. trusted and quietly took 3 savings books to the bank to withdraw money and transfer it to them. Luckily, Mr. T.'s wife discovered her husband's unusual behavior and questioned him. Knowing the incident, Mr. T.'s wife quickly reported it to the police to promptly stop the fraud./.