Prime Minister requests to step up prevention and handling of fraud in cyberspace

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 29/CD-TTg dated April 3, 2025, requesting ministries, branches, and localities to step up the prevention and handling of activities using high technology in cyberspace to fraudulently appropriate property.

The dispatch stated that recently, the Prime Minister has issued many documents directing the work of preventing, combating and handling crimes, especially crimes using high technology in cyberspace to defraud and appropriate property. Ministries, branches and localities have proactively implemented the implementation and achieved some positive results.

However, cyber fraud continues to be complicated, with organized, transnational activities and increasingly sophisticated methods, causing great damage to people and businesses and negatively affecting security and order.

To overcome this situation, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and relevant agencies to focus on effectively implementing the tasks assigned in Official Dispatch No. 139/CD-TTg of the Prime Minister on strengthening the prevention and handling of fraudulent activities of appropriating assets using high technology in cyberspace.

Peak of attack and suppression of high-tech crimes

The Ministry of Public Security directs the Public Security of units and localities to focus on effectively implementing the peak period of attacking and suppressing crimes using high technology, taking advantage of cyberspace to commit crimes, especially crimes of fraud and appropriation of property, especially during the period of reorganizing the local police apparatus (not organizing district-level police); regularly review, promptly detect, prevent, and delete content, websites, links, applications, associations, groups, and accounts on cyberspace related to fraudulent activities, calls, and messages suspected of fraud, especially calls from abroad, calls using VoIP technology, OTT applications, etc.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of National Defense to direct forces to organize reconnaissance, monitoring, information collection, analysis, assessment, and grasp the situation in cyberspace to promptly take measures to deal with activities affecting national defense and security; closely coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Science and Technology to proactively detect, identify, prevent, and handle websites, IP addresses, applications, and malware used in fraudulent activities to appropriate assets...

Classify and warn accounts with transactions using foreign IP addresses

The Prime Minister assigned the State Bank of Vietnam to direct the system of commercial banks and payment intermediary service providers to urgently check and verify the biometric authentication of legal representatives for online transactions of business accounts; eliminate accounts without owners' names or accounts with false information; deploy technical solutions to detect, classify and warn accounts with transactions using IP addresses abroad; urgently organize the connection of information and data on accounts (individuals and businesses) with the National Population Database to authenticate and prevent crimes...

Assign the Ministry of Science and Technology to review, amend, supplement or propose competent authorities to amend and supplement legal documents in the telecommunications sector; coordinate with the State Bank of Vietnam to have a plan to match information of account holders and legal representatives with information of mobile subscribers according to the mobile phone number registered in the application for opening a payment account or e-wallet; direct telecommunications enterprises to authenticate, store, use telecommunications subscriber information and handle SIMs with incomplete or inaccurate telecommunications subscriber information according to regulations...

The Ministry of Finance shall preside over the study and propose measures to strengthen the inspection of charter capital contributions of enterprises after being granted the Certificate of Business Registration; review and complete the procedures and regulations for establishing enterprises; strengthen post-inspection and detect enterprises that do not conduct actual business activities after being established; closely coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security to verify information of legal representatives and authorized persons, "clean" data on enterprise information; proactively provide information and documents to the Ministry of Public Security to prevent and handle the exploitation of enterprise establishment for illegal activities.

Organize the connection of tax information and data of individuals and businesses with the National Population Database for authentication and crime prevention.

Strengthening propaganda to help people raise awareness and proactively prevent

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has directed news agencies and newspapers to increase propaganda about new methods and tricks of using high technology in cyberspace to defraud and appropriate property, helping people raise their awareness and proactively prevent them.

The Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities direct functional forces to continue to resolutely, effectively and substantially implement measures to prevent and combat crimes of fraud and appropriation of property, especially crimes using high technology and taking advantage of cyberspace; innovate propaganda work, suitable to the characteristics of each locality; pay attention to investing, supporting funding and modern technological equipment for forces directly fighting and combating crimes using high technology.

Localities with land borders direct the police, border guards and related forces to strengthen management of the area, promptly detect and handle subjects exiting and entering the country to commit violations of the law.

Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency, Government Electronic Information Portal and news agencies and newspapers increase information on plots, new methods, tricks, and ways to deal with fraudulent acts of appropriating property, especially fraud in cyberspace; prevention and handling results of functional forces so that people can raise awareness, promptly provide information, and denounce fraudulent acts of appropriating property.

Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities and relevant agencies shall organize the dissemination and serious implementation of this Official Dispatch.

The Ministry of Public Security monitors, guides, inspects and urges the implementation of this Official Dispatch; every quarter, ministries, branches and localities report on the situation and results of the implementation of assigned tasks to the Ministry of Public Security for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister.

The Government Office shall coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security according to its assigned functions and tasks to regularly monitor, urge and report to the Prime Minister on the situation and results of the implementation of this Official Dispatch./.