Made up lottery numbers, sold them online, and then embezzled billions of dong.
(Baonghean.vn) - Coming up with their own lottery numbers, a group of people in Quynh Luu district posted them online with a 100% winning guarantee, thereby taking billions of dong from thousands of people.
Nghe An Police Department's Criminal Police Department has just arrested a group of people who committed fraud and property appropriation by providing fake lottery numbers online.
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| The group of subjects arrested. Photo: Tuan Cuong |
The arrested subjects include: Nguyen Van Thuong (born 1995); Nguyen Van Hieu (born 1994); Tran Van Toan (born 1996); Ho Van Thanh (born 1999); Nguyen Xuan Toan (born 1996); Nguyen Duc Nhat (born 1995); Ho Dinh Tai (born 1995) and Nguyen Xuan Trung (born 1991), all residing in Quynh Lam commune, Quynh Luu district.
According to the Criminal Police Department, this is a group of people who specialize in providing lottery numbers online that they themselves created to scam and appropriate billions of dong from many people in and outside the province.
Specifically, through websites and social networking sites, these subjects set up lottery prediction, number picking, and lottery prediction services. To gain people's trust, these subjects all affirm that the lottery numbers are accurate, along with attractive advertisements "guaranteed to win big", "100% win". From there, they have attracted countless people with gambling blood to participate, dreaming of changing their lives.
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| Investigators are taking a suspect's statement. Photo: Tuan Cuong |
However, at the police station, these subjects affirmed that the lottery numbers provided to customers were made up by themselves, without any basis.
Nguyen Xuan Trung confessed that previously, transactions with customers were mainly done on social networking sites such as FB, Zalo... However, he later switched to buying websites to carry out the acts.
People who buy lottery tickets from these subjects will transfer money by directly recharging cards on websites or transferring via bank accounts. Some days, these subjects earn illegal profits of 2-3 million VND.
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| A transaction message was copied by the police. Photo: Tuan Cuong |
The police said that the activities of these subjects have been going on for many years. With the above tricks, this group of subjects has defrauded and appropriated billions of dong from thousands of people across the country.
The Criminal Police Department is continuing to investigate the incident.
