Ms. Nguyen Thi Quy - Vice President of the Ninh Thuan Provincial Federation of Labor, said - The Provincial Federation of Labor has just issued a document requesting all levels of the Union to step up propaganda work on Zalo and Facebook of agencies, units and enterprises about new methods and tricks of criminals to defraud and appropriate property on cyberspace.
Instruct union members and workers to install the anti-fraud software “nTrust”… to raise their vigilance against the methods and tricks of online fraudsters at the end of the year.
According to Ninh Thuan Provincial Police, the situation of fraud and property appropriation crimes on cyberspace continues to be complicated, with a tendency to form "craft villages" and "corporations" operating fraud with many sophisticated methods and tricks. The subjects operate in an organized manner, prepare scenarios in advance, and commit crimes that cause huge property damage.
Since the beginning of 2024, Ninh Thuan Provincial Police have received 56 cases of fraud and property appropriation on the Internet, with the amount of money appropriated being more than 30 billion VND. Of which, 37/56 cases involved women (accounting for 66%).
7 common methods and tricks that subjects have used in the past. The most common is recruiting online sales collaborators to receive high commissions, subjects entice victims to place orders online, process orders on fake brand websites, e-commerce platforms. After creating trust with small, profitable orders, the subjects request to execute large orders, when withdrawing money, they use the excuse of incorrect information, network errors to continue asking victims to deposit money and appropriate (24 cases occurred).
Impersonating the police, the Court called to notify people involved in the case, fined them for traffic violations, updated data on the VNeID electronic identification application and asked the victims to transfer money to the accounts provided by the scammers to serve the investigation, processing and then appropriation (8 cases).
Impersonating large companies, using the logos of foreign companies and corporations, impersonating legal representatives of companies and corporations to call for investment. Then, stimulating the greed of the victims and asking them to transfer money to the subject's account, and after defrauding all the money, cutting off contact with the victims (6 cases).
Setting up a virtual trading floor, taking advantage of the victim's psychology of making quick money and investing with high profits to deposit money to invest in stocks and virtual currency, then appropriating the victim's deposit (3 cases).
Texting to get acquainted with the victim, then promising to give or send gifts from abroad to Vietnam and asking the victim to transfer money to receive the gifts or borrow money and then appropriate it (3 cases).
Taking advantage of individuals and organizations in need of loans, these subjects impersonate financial companies, create fake websites to get borrowers' information, ask them to pay loan fees and then appropriate the money. Some cases impersonate financial companies to call and send threatening messages to victims and relatives to collect debts and then appropriate the money (2 cases).
Some other tricks include hacking social network accounts to contact victims to borrow money, registering to become members of groups... (10 cases).
In addition, through the work of grasping the situation in some provinces, the authorities have discovered new methods and tricks of fraud such as: impersonating bank officials to call, text, send fake website links, instructions on logging in to steal information, take over accounts, then withdraw money from the victim's bank account; fraud through charity activities, fraud through delivery activities...
