According to Hanoi City Police, on the afternoon of May 7, 2025, Ms. L (born in 2006, currently a student in Hanoi) received a phone call from a person claiming to be a police officer of Quang Ninh Province. The subject informed that Ms. L was involved in a money laundering and drug trafficking ring and asked to transfer money to "prove her innocence".
Fearing, Ms. L followed the instructions and transferred a total of nearly 3 billion VND.
The scammers' tricks are not called sophisticated, even too revealing, old tricks. Criminals use tricks to impersonate police and prosecutors, defrauding hundreds of people across the country, in one case the victim was scammed out of tens of billions of VND. There are old women in Hanoi who were threatened by people impersonating police officers, defrauding 15 billion and 18 billion VND.
Many victims have been scammed by criminals, have reported to the police, and the press has posted articles for readers to follow, and know the scams to prevent them. Police agencies also organize propaganda and warnings to people about impersonating police to defraud money and property. However, many people are still trapped, some have saved their whole lives and given them to criminals just because they trust people over the phone.
Elderly people, the elderly, those who rarely read newspapers, limit information and fall into scammers' traps can understand, but students are also scammed, it is really unbelievable.
Not only the case of a female student being scammed out of nearly 3 billion VND mentioned above, a male student at a university in Hanoi was recently scammed out of more than 1 billion VND after hearing a call from a subject impersonating a police officer.
As students in modern society, with many tools to access information, but ignoring all warnings from the police and the press about impersonating police officers to commit fraud is too welcome.
In fact, students must be the ones to propagate and warn their families and the social community about scammers and their tricks, contributing to protecting honest people. Unfortunately, these cases cannot protect themselves.
Recently, criminals impersonating police and prosecutors have targeted students, threatened, forced them to provide personal information and transfer money, and many students have become victims. Schools, youth unions, and student unions should have a plan to propagate and guide students to know how to protect themselves.
