Responding to the petition of Vinh city voters on tightening management of social networking sites
(Baonghean.vn) - Voters in Truong Thi ward, Vinh city reported that there are currently many cases of people being scammed via social networks. They requested the Provincial People's Committee to direct the management of social networks more strictly.
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According to statistics from the Ministry of Information and Communications, in 2022, Vietnam will have 72 million social media users (an increase of 7% compared to 2021). Despite propaganda and warnings, many people are still scammed and lose money after receiving strange phone calls claiming to be police officers, bank employees or messages containing fake links.
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| Fake pages of Vietnam Social Security. Photo: Archive |
Most of the scams use the trick of creating fake websites of agencies, organizations, and businesses to commit fraud, provide access instructions, log in to bank accounts, passwords, and read OTP codes... In addition to creating fake websites, the subjects also create social network accounts, fake fanpages of state agencies and businesses such as: Fake fanpage of the Central Propaganda Department; fake fanpage "Criminal Police" of the Ministry of Public Security; fake fanpage VTV, fake account of the National Center for Hydrometeorology, fake VietinBank, fake Vietnam National Defense Television and many fake accounts of Vietnam Television...
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| Some Facebook fanpages posted false information about social housing projects. Photo: Ministry of Public Security website |
Faced with that situation, the Provincial People's Committee has directed the Department of Information and Communications to deploy many measures to propagate, warn, and guide people to be vigilant against scams on the Internet in general and social networks in particular, such as: (Be alert to the risk of revealing accounts and passwords from social networking sites and online services; strengthen the work of ensuring network information security during the Lunar New Year; Information security bulletin; Code of conduct on social networks...); strengthen inspection and examination work to handle according to regulations; coordinate with the police to verify subjects of fraud and appropriation of property via the Internet.
At the same time, the Ministry of Information and Communications is requested to request cross-border social network service providers to remove and filter content showing signs of fraud.
