The 9-day Lunar New Year holiday in 2025 has caused people's travel demand to increase dramatically. Taking advantage of this situation, many scammers have deployed sophisticated tricks to appropriate customers' assets.
According to the Department of Information Security, most scammers use scams via social networks like Facebook, Zalo...
They create groups and fanpages, posting advertising information about Tet tours with attractive invitations such as "Travel combo - cheap tour", "Last minute tour - Super cheap price", "Tet and Holiday tour with super attractive price"... with eye-catching images, detailed schedules and commitments of "reputation, quality".
To create trust, these subjects use many fake accounts to comment and praise the service, even hiring celebrities and content creators to write reviews to deceive customers.
After customers text to ask about tours, the scammers will impersonate employees of reputable airline ticket agents or travel companies, asking customers to deposit 30-50% or the entire amount due. As soon as they receive the money, they "disappear", blocking contact with the victim.
In addition, there is also a form of tourism service fraud but it is not like advertising or visa services for foreign travel during Tet. Similar to other types of fraud, most customers only discover that they have been scammed after transferring money to the scammer and it is difficult to get the transferred amount back.
Therefore, to avoid "losing money and getting sick", people need to be careful and alert, carefully research information about travel agencies, tourism companies or tourism service providers. Note, only choose reputable units, clear addresses, complete documents and business licenses.
In addition, the Information Security Department recommends that people should be wary of tour advertisements that are too cheap compared to the market, and absolutely do not provide personal information or bank account information to anyone.
Be vigilant, do not access strange links, do not download applications of unknown origin to your phone to avoid being infected with malware and losing access to bank accounts.
In case of suspected fraud, people need to immediately report to the police for timely support and resolution.
