From the complaint, discovered a fraud ring of tens of billions of dong

On February 14, information from Gia Lai Provincial Police said that the authorities had just successfully dismantled a case of subjects taking advantage of cyberspace to commit fraud and appropriate tens of billions of dong in assets.

This is a fraud ring with dozens of subjects at home and abroad, with "subordinates" in many Asian countries colluding with each other, through the trick of setting traps to receive gifts, foreign currency, and receive documents sent from abroad to Vietnam.

According to investigation documents, previously, Ms. HTS (residing in Thang Loi ward, Pleiku city) filed a complaint with Gia Lai Provincial Police about being scammed by cyber criminals, appropriating more than 18 billion VND.

Based on the victim's report, the Gia Lai Provincial Police Department directed the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department to preside over and coordinate with the Investigation Security Department and other professional departments of the Provincial Police to set up a special project to fight.

Under the direct command of Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Son - Deputy Director of the Provincial Police, Head of the investigation team, dozens of detectives were sent to Ho Chi Minh City, Ben Tre, Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Ba Ria - Vung Tau... to collect information, verify documents and evidence of criminal activities.

From the collected documents, the Investigation Committee decided to simultaneously search the residences of many subjects, confiscating 2 laptops, 14 phones, more than 130 million VND in cash; freezing more than 40 bank accounts, confiscating many phone SIM cards, bank cards and many related objects and documents...

Through the struggle, the authorities initially identified the subject who committed the fraud and appropriated more than 18 billion VND from Ms. HTS (Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province). At the same time, they arrested and prosecuted 2 subjects, including 1 foreigner, for the act of"Fraudulent appropriation of property"and “Illegal collection, storage, exchange, purchase, sale, and public disclosure of information about bank accounts”.

At the investigation agency, the subjects confessed to using various social networks to post pictures and articles pretending to be foreign doctors, businessmen, and engineers, then making friends, getting to know, and having romantic conversations with the victims.

After being accepted, the subjects "complained" that they were working in a difficult area, where war was taking place, and currently had a lot of foreign currency and expensive jewelry that needed someone to trust to keep for them and receive documents to complete procedures for this person to return to Vietnam to live.

When the victim agrees, other subjects pretend to be employees of international shipping companies, airport staff, customs officers, tax officers, police officers... contact the victim and ask them to send various fees, taxes, fines, bribes... only then will they receive a package containing a lot of foreign currency and documents sent from abroad.

Using the above tricks, the subjects defrauded and appropriated nearly 100 billion VND and hundreds of thousands of USD from many victims in countries such as Japan, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam...

To bring the transnational criminal organization of fraud to light, dozens of officers and soldiers did not have Tet, day and night resolutely organized to collect documents, consolidate evidence, persistently, intelligently, and uncompromisingly fought against this type of crime.

Currently, the Investigation Committee is continuing to convene and work with many other related subjects, at the same time consolidating documents and evidence to handle according to the provisions of law.