'Caught' female scammer with trick of ordering birthday flowers with real money

On April 14, the police of Loc Chau commune, Bao Loc city (Lam Dong) said that the authorities had temporarily detained Phan Thi Kim Tuyen (born in 1992, residing in Loc Tien ward, Bao Loc city) to investigate her behavior.fraud and appropriation of propertyMany people order birthday flowers with real money.

Previously, on April 12, Loc Chau Commune Police received a report from Ms. Cao Thi Nga - owner of a flower shop in the area - about a woman named Tuyen ordering a bouquet of flowers made of real money worth more than 7.2 million VND and then appropriating it.

Specifically, when receiving the bouquet of flowers, this woman asked for Ms. Nga’s account number and then transferred the money. Seeing that the transfer was successful, Ms. Nga let the woman take the bouquet of flowers and money.

Waiting for the money to not be credited to her account, Ms. Nga called the person who bought the bouquet with money but could not contact her. Suspecting that she had been scammed, the flower shop owner posted the incident on social media to warn people about fraudulent behavior.

During the investigation, Loc Chau Commune Police and Investigation Team 3, Lam Dong Provincial Police coordinated with Phu Loi Ward Police, Thu Dau Mot City (Binh Duong) to arrest Phan Thi Kim Tuyen.

Initially, Tuyen confessed that in order to have money to pay off debts and for personal expenses, he committed fraud by contacting flower and birthday cake shops and ordering products made with real money.

Once an agreement was reached, the subject hired someone to fake bank transactions and successfully transferred money to the shop owners to appropriate their assets.

With this trick, the police initially determined that Phan Thi Kim Tuyen had appropriated more than 7.2 million VND of property from Ms. Cao Thi Nga (residing in Loc Chau commune); Ms. Le Thi My Dung (Loc Nga commune, Bao Loc city) had 5.3 million VND appropriated by Tuyen and Ms. Do Bich Ngoc (Loc An commune, Bao Lam district) had 4.4 million VND appropriated by Tuyen.