On April 4, the Government Office announced that Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had just signed Official Dispatch No. 29/CD-TTg requesting ministries, branches and localities to step up the prevention and handling of activities using high technology in cyberspace to commit fraud and property appropriation.
According to the dispatch, the situation of fraud in cyberspace continues to be complicated, with organized and transnational activities with increasingly sophisticated tricks, causing great damage to people and businesses, negatively affecting security and order.
The Ministry of Public Security directs the police of units and localities to focus on effectively implementing the peak period of attacking and suppressing high-tech crimes, taking advantage of cyberspace to commit crimes, especially crimes of fraud and appropriation of property, especially in the period of organizing the local police apparatus (no district-level police organization).
Regularly review, promptly detect, prevent, and delete content, websites, links, applications, associations, groups, and accounts on cyberspace related to fraudulent activities, calls, and messages suspected of being fraudulent, especially calls from abroad, calls using VoIP technology, and OTT applications.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of National Defense to direct forces to organize reconnaissance, supervision, information collection, analysis, assessment, and grasp the situation in cyberspace to promptly take measures to deal with activities affecting national defense and security.
Closely coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Science and Technology to proactively detect, identify, prevent, and handle websites, IP addresses, applications, and malware used in property fraud activities.
At the same time, the Ministry of National Defense directed forces to increase patrols and strictly control border areas, especially trails, openings, mountainous areas, and rivers.
Applying modern technologies, such as: surveillance cameras, drones, GPS locating systems... to enhance the ability to monitor and detect illegal border crossings; building a data information system on subjects at risk of illegal border crossings to proactively prevent and stop them.
The Prime Minister assigned the State Bank of Vietnam to direct the system of commercial banks and payment intermediary service providers to urgently inspect and compare biometric authentication of legal representatives for online transactions of business accounts.
Eliminate accounts without owners and accounts with false information; deploy technical solutions to detect, classify, and warn accounts with transactions using IP addresses abroad.
The State Bank of Vietnam requires credit institutions and foreign bank branches in Vietnam, payment intermediary service providers to coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security to connect the system, receive information about the list of accounts, organizations, and individuals related to illegal activities to warn customers when making transactions, promptly prevent and stop damage from occurring.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Science and Technology to coordinate with the State Bank of Vietnam to have a plan for information of the account holder and the legal representative with the information of the mobile subscriber owner at the mobile phone number registered in the opening of the payment account and electronic wallet.
Direct telecommunications enterprises to authenticate, store, and use telecommunications subscriber information and handle SIM cards with incomplete and inaccurate telecommunications subscriber information according to regulations.
