There has been a case of impersonating the Facebook Fanpage of Vietnam Social Security to defraud and appropriate people's property.

Propaganda and mobilization of people to participate in voluntary social insurance and family health insurance in Vinh city. Photo: Thanh Chung

Specifically, on February 6, due to needing to withdraw moneySocial insuranceBefore the deadline, Ms. Nguyen Thi V., born in 1992, residing in Thanh Ha district, Hai Duong province, used the Facebook account "Nguyen V." to comment on a post on the Facebook Fanpage named "Social Insurance" and was instructed to contact directly the document receiving department with the Facebook name "Nhan Thanh".

After contacting Nhan Thanh via Messenger, Ms. V. was advised and instructed: no fee, just need to complete the withdrawal application and deposit 1,000,000 VND/application. On February 10, Ms. V. asked Nhan Thanh to complete 2 sets of documents to withdraw money for her and her husband, Mr. Nguyen Van T., with a total amount of 202 million VND for the couple.

After that, following Nhan Thanh's instructions, Ms. V. transferred a total amount of over 109 million VND to account number 1021007230, account holder name LE NAM, belonging to SHB bank. As a result, Ms. V. still could not withdraw the money and could not contact Nhan Thanh, so she reported the incident to the police.

This is not the first time that Facebook Fanpages have impersonated Social Insurance agencies or Social Insurance agency officials to defraud and appropriate people's property. Previously, in some localities such as Ho Chi Minh City, An Giang province... there have also been cases of fraud on Social Insurance benefit records to appropriate property similar to the above case. Specifically, these scammers asked workers to provide their Social Insurance payment history on the "VssID - Digital Social Insurance" application to calculate the amount of unemployment benefits.

Then the subjects will help the workers with the disbursement procedures within 2 days and charge a service fee of 5% of the total amount the workers receive, which must be paid in advance.

However, after transferring money to this subject, the employee did not receive any benefits and had the 5% service fee that had been paid in advance to the subject appropriated.

According to information from Vietnam Social Security, currently Vietnam Social Security only provides official information on Social Insurance, Health Insurance, Voluntary Insurance policies and consulting and support services for participants through the following channels:

1. Vietnam Social Security Electronic Information Portal:https://baohiemxahoi.gov.vn/

Official information channel of Vietnam Social Security. Photo provided by Social Security

2. Social networking sites of Vietnam Social Security

- Facebook Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/baohiemxahoi.gov.vn

Vietnam Social Security Facebook Fanpage. Photo provided by Social Security

- Zalo Official Account: Vietnam Social Security

Zalo page of Vietnam Social Security. Photo provided by Social Security

3. Application “VssID - Digital Social Insurance”

"VssID" application. Photo provided by Social Security

"VssID" application. Photo provided by Social Security

4. Customer care and support center - hotline: 1900.9068

Vietnam Social Security recommends that people, employees, units and organizations should not look for information on unofficial Fanpages, forums, etc. to avoid being taken advantage of and scammed by bad guys. In case of suspicion of being scammed, people and employees can immediately report to the police for support or notify the local Social Security agency for timely advice and support./.