A woman in her 40s falsely claims she's about to be appointed to a managerial position in order to scam people into paying for jobs.

The Vung Tau Police (BR-VT) announced that they have initiated a criminal case and charged Tran Thi Huyen (39 years old, residing in Vung Tau City) with fraud and appropriation of property.

According to initial investigations, starting around July 2014, Huyen introduced herself to many people as someone with connections to provincial leaders and someone about to be appointed Deputy Chief of the Provincial Party Committee Office, claiming she could secure jobs for others.

Through a friend's introduction, Mr. Ng.M.Th. (residing in Vung Tau City) met with Huyen to arrange a job for his daughter as an accountant at the Southern Petroleum Company, located in Thang Nhat Ward (Vung Tau City), for 450 million VND. Huyen reduced the price by 20 million VND, bringing it down to 430 million VND. Huyen requested that Mr. Th pay half upfront, with the remaining amount to be paid after the job was secured and the contract was signed.

Tran Thi Huyen.

Huyen promised that within one year of receiving the money, H. would be able to buy a social housing unit. On February 10, 2015, Huyen promised to get H.'s husband a job at Tan Thanh Gas Company, transferring him from the Ca Mau Fertilizer Plant for 400 million VND. The job application process was to take one month, and H. paid Huyen 147 million VND upfront. The remaining amount would be paid in two installments (100 million VND after the interview, and the rest after receiving the job offer).

In late February 2015, Huyen visited the school where H. worked and befriended a teacher there. Huyen learned that the teacher's husband was unemployed and seized the opportunity. Huyen claimed she could get the teacher's husband a job at a South Korean oil and gas company in the Dong Xuyen Industrial Park (Vung Tau City) for 50 million VND. Because the teacher didn't believe her, she asked H. to write a guarantee and gave Huyen 10 million VND in advance.

Using similar tactics and sweet-talking, Huyen defrauded many people by promising them jobs, appropriating 1.5 billion VND. Huyen used the money for personal expenses and fled her residence, prompting the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Provincial Police to issue an arrest warrant. She was finally apprehended at the end of August 2016.

According to Dan Tri