The information was given by Ho Chi Minh City Police at a regular press conference on the afternoon of June 5.
Ho Chi Minh City Police said that in recent years, during the summer, some extracurricular education models and practical experiences with many positive values for children and adolescents, such as police and military semesters; pilot semesters, art summer camp, English summer camp, picnicking summer camp... have become popular and attracted the attention of parents.
Taking advantage of this attention, the subjects have built many scenarios to defraud and appropriate property such as creating websites, social networking sites that impersonate agencies and businesses... to introduce extracurricular education models, experiencing the above reality; using online advertising services to approach and bring fraudulent content to victims.
Forged websites and social networking sites copy the prototypes (names, addresses, programs, content, images, videos, etc.) of the forged units (police agencies, military agencies, educational centers, airlines or businesses providing summer camp services); only change contact information (phone numbers, emails, consulting accounts) to lure victims to contact and implement fraud scenarios.
Some of the tricks that people often use are required by the victim to transfer deposit or pay 100% of tuition fees to receive discounts; Notice the summer camp is free to lure the victim to perform the task of receiving promotions and free incentives. In particular, the first tasks and subjects will pay a reward to stimulate and entice victims to participate in higher tasks to receive more rewards; After that, the website reported an error, asking the victim to continue transferring money to appropriate.
According to Ho Chi Minh City Police, this is not a new scenario, but there are still many victims who have been scammed. To proactively prevent and avoid the above situation, the City Police recommends that agencies, units and people pay attention to:
Agencies, units, and educational centers that organize summer camp models need to proactively provide information to press agencies, local authorities, schools, and mass organizations to support providing official information to people about extracurricular education models and practical experiences, especially at the present time, students are preparing for summer vacation.
People need to be vigilant when receiving information on the internet (including advertising information with many likes and high interactions). When there is a need to search for and choose an extracurricular education model, experience reality; in addition to learning information online, it is necessary to directly contact the agency, unit and centers providing the summer camp model to evaluate and check before deciding to pay the budget.
In case of detecting fake or scammed pages and channels, people need to immediately report to the nearest police agency for support and resolution
