"Handsome guy" swindles and appropriates property of young woman he met on social network

On June 9, information from the Hoa Vang District Police (Da Nang City) said: The Investigation Police Agency has just issued an emergency arrest warrant for Vo Quoc Dung (born 1989, residing in Dai Nghia Commune, Dai Loc District, Quang Nam) to continue to clarify the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".

Previously, through social networks, Dung got to know Ms. TTTH (1989, residing in Dien Quang commune, Dien Ban town, Quang Nam). With his handsome appearance and talent for chatting on the keyboard, after only 3 months of knowing each other and chatting back and forth, Dung made Ms. TH feel good and completely "trust" him.

At around 3:30 p.m. on May 28, after receiving a phone call from Dung inviting her to go out for coffee, Ms. TH immediately rode her Air Blade motorbike with license plate 92D1-529.64 to G. shop (Ai Nghia town, Dai Loc district) to talk.

After chatting for a while, Dung told Ms. H. that he needed to go to Da Nang to ask a brother to go back to his hometown to take care of his elderly mother. Hearing that, Ms. H. immediately gave Dung the car to drive, while she sat in the back.

When the car passed the intersection between Duong Son village (Hoa Tien commune, Hoa Vang district) and DT605 road, Dung stopped the car and told Ms. H. to wait while he drove alone to a friend's house nearby to ask for a ride, and conveniently returned the car to Ms. H. so she could go home before it was too late.

Believing him, Ms. H. got out of the car and waited... However, not only did Dung not return to pick her up as promised, but he also turned off his phone and could not be contacted. Realizing she had been tricked, Ms. H. immediately went to the Hoa Tien Commune Police (Hoa Vang District, Da Nang City) to report the incident.

From the victim’s information, through investigation, Hoa Vang District Police gradually sketched out the true face of the fraudster. Thereby, they discovered that Vo Quoc Dung, also known as Cu Cho, had a criminal record, was sentenced by Dai Loc District People’s Court to 7 years in prison for “Theft of property” and had just completed his prison term in early 2018.

The Hoa Vang police also knew that Dung had fled to Quang Ngai. By the evening of June 3, the police of the neighboring province reported that in Tran ward (Quang Ngai city), they had detained a person who was high on drugs and climbed onto a house and shouted, affecting the local security and order situation. The identity of this drug addict was very similar to Vo Quoc Dung, as the Hoa Vang (Da Nang) police were looking for.

Immediately, Dung was “invited” to the police station to clarify. After waking up from his high, Dung confessed that after taking Ms. H’s car, he drove it to Nui Thanh district to sell it to an acquaintance for 27 million VND. He spent all of this money on drug addiction until he was arrested…