Lost 200 million VND for "dream job"
On online job search groups, advertisements and recruitment information for part-time jobs are continuously posted with promised incomes of 100,000 - 300,000 VND/day. The target recruiters are mothers, students, and recent graduates looking for part-time jobs.
At the end of August 2024, Ms. Tran Thi Tra My (23 years old, from Nghe An) officially graduated from a university majoring in business administration in Hanoi. After graduating, she hurriedly searched for a place to work by "spreading" her application on websites and fanpages on Facebook social networking groups. After that, Ms. My was overjoyed to receive an email notifying her that she had passed the first round of the sales position in a lottery company. For the second round, the company required an online interview, Ms. My needed to create a profile and upload it to the internal application Workplace chat. The company's HR department will send an invitation to activate the account to the email to discuss with the HR and complete the profile.
Passing the second round, Ms. My was given a trial period, ran online numbers, and joined a Telegram group to work. According to Ms. My, in the group there were many newly recruited employees who were on probation like her. All of them were required to download an additional app to complete tasks.
“For example, if I transfer 700,000 VND to this app, I will receive 1 million VND back, the company will make a profit of 100,000 VND and I will receive 200,000 VND. It is very difficult to pass the recruitment rounds here, so when I received the first 200,000 VND, I was very happy. I think this is a dream job for many people,” My shared.
At the same time, all members of the group, who were said to be employees of the company, also performed the task. Within just one day, she had deposited 150 million VND into the app. However, to withdraw this amount, she would have to deposit another 150 million VND.
"They also made me commit to transferring the money within 24 hours, otherwise they would not be able to keep the money," My recalled.
Not having enough 150 million VND to deposit into the account, Ms. My transferred the remaining 50 million VND from her mother in the hope of getting back the principal. In the end, 200 million VND was lost after only 1 day of doing her "dream job" and she discovered that she had been scammed.
Absolutely do not deposit money or personal documents
Speaking to Lao Dong, Mr. Vu Quang Thanh - Deputy Director of the Hanoi Employment Service Center - said that the demand for finding new jobs or finding extra jobs to increase income of workers is very high, especially near Tet. Fraudulent tricks are also very diverse, from cheating money, appropriating property, cheating to work for free...
“Absolutely do not deposit money or personal documents. When there are signs of money appropriation, keeping personal documents, forced labor... you need to immediately notify the police and local authorities for guidance and handling,” Mr. Thanh advised.
Recently, Quang Binh Provincial Police have also coordinated with Dong Thap Provincial Police and Hanoi City Police to clarify a group of subjects specializing in forging images, papers, and documents; forging, buying, selling, exchanging bank accounts and fraudulently appropriating assets on the Internet with extremely sophisticated tricks.
The group specializes in hacking Facebook accounts, then using these accounts to send messages to buy goods and pay by bank transfer.When buying goods, these subjects use fake payment invoices to send to the seller to carry out fraudulent acts.
