Exposing the scenario of a gang specializing in defrauding Vietnamese people

On June 16, Nghe An Provincial People's Court opened the first instance trial of 37 defendants in the ring.Fraudulent appropriation of propertyThe ringleaders include Vu Hoang Minh Tuan (born in 1992, in Ho Chi Minh City), Duong Minh Dung (born in 1991, residing in Quang Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district, Nghe An), and Tang Quang Vinh (born in 1989, residing in Ho Chi Minh City).

In this case, Nghe An alone has 27 defendants. However, due to a lack of defendants and one defendant on the run, the panel of judges decided to postpone the trial.

Regarding the case, the investigation agency determined that, through social networks, introductions from acquaintances and friends about doing "light work, high salary", from 2021 to 2023, the defendants worked for fraudulent companies in Cambodia. Among them, there was a Taiwanese company owned by A Tho (unknown identity and background) and 1 company owned by Le Minh Dung.

After establishing companies based in Cambodia to conduct fraudulent activities by impersonating Vietnamese government agencies such as: Police, Procuracy, Bank, Post and Telecommunications... through Vietnamese people and social networks, A Tho recruited workers and promised easy work with high salaries.

The company rented headquarters in locations in Bavet town, Svay Rieng province, Cambodia (near Moc Bai International Border Gate, Tay Ninh) to set up a system of machines and an internet network to operate to defraud Vietnamese citizens.

The company is organized in a top-down system from the owner, manager, technician, translator, and employees in groups D1, D2, D3. When starting work, employees are given fraud instruction documents. After studying for a few days, they will start to commit fraud. Based on the ability of the employees, they will be assigned to specific groups.

Each position and department has its own tasks but works together. Among them, D1 is the largest group, sitting in rooms outside the company's hallway, each person sitting in a separate work area. These people are provided by the company with phones installed with VoIP calling application, phone chargers, headphones, paper and pens.

D1 calls, using 3 scenarios including: impersonating an employee of the Ministry of Information and Communications, informing that your subscription is about to be locked; impersonating an employee of the electricity company to trick you into believing that the electricity contract will be terminated in 2 hours; impersonating a local police officer to inform you that you are involved in fraud, money laundering, or illegal trading...

Then, the subjects will press the ## button to transfer the call to D2, impersonating police officers and investigators to manipulate the victim's psychology. Next, these subjects will transfer the call to D3.

D3 are people who have worked for a long time, have experience, and are trusted by the company owner. The subjects in this group will instruct the victims to transfer money into accounts to appropriate.

The subjects participating in this line will receive different salaries. In which, D1 receives a fixed salary of 12 million VND/month and a commission of 4% of the amount of money swindled. D2 and D3 do not receive a fixed salary but receive 5.5% commission from D1 up.

All D1, D2, D3 were united from the beginning, working together to defraud and appropriate property of Vietnamese people. In the chain of actions to successfully carry out the fraud, no position can be absent.

Every day at 6:30 p.m., the company will hold a meeting to review experiences and commend those who have scammed people's money. In addition, employees will share their scam experiences, ways of talking, sayings, and words to victims to achieve higher scam effectiveness, and learn from mistakes in scams that lead to "dead orders".

Every month after the summary, the subjects will be given a virtual bank account by the company, through a person providing cash exchange services to transfer money to Vietnam for employees.

The investigation agency determined that from 2021 to 2023, the defendants defrauded 4 victims of a total amount of more than 8.6 billion VND.