Afternoon 8.8, Đàm Vĩnh Hưng stated that he had just been scammed by a bad person to withdraw over 2 million dollars from his personal bank account by exploiting his identity.
Subsequently, Đàm Vĩnh Hưng called on everyone to be vigilant and avoid being scammed unintentionally.
Earlier, singer Lương Gia Huy stated that he had also been scammed by a bank transfer and lost nearly 5 million dollars.
According to that, Lương Gia Huy received a call from a person claiming to be a "bank employee" to inform him about the procedure for increasing his credit card limit.
Lương Gia Huy shared that, due to being too busy, he had handed his phone over to his assistant to handle. Due to a lack of caution, the person did as instructed by the scammer, completed the procedures such as taking a photo of his citizen identification card, visa card, and providing the OTP code to the other end...
The singer did not notice anything unusual because he had been previously instructed that after deducting the amount, he would be refunded. It was not until midnight that the scammer withdrew money from Lương Gia Huy's card and his wife's card that he discovered it and immediately locked the card. The total amount he lost was nearly 5 million dollars.
In March 2022, singer Đức Phúc was also scammed by a group of individuals who impersonated Minh Hải (Hòa Minzy's ex-boyfriend) and Erik to scam and seize 3.2 million dollars. Model Trà Ngọc Hằng also stated that she was scammed using a similar method, with a total amount of 5 million dollars.
Manager Lương Trọng Nghĩa, who manages a series of famous artists, stated that he had been scammed of his personal Facebook account. Subsequently, the scammer impersonated him using the account and scammed his friends to transfer large amounts of money.
Some people who transferred money to the scammer were artist Hồ Vĩnh Anh (10 million dollars), singer Nam Cường (5 million dollars), singer Trang Nhung (50 million dollars), and artist Phan Ngọc Trúc Linh (3 million dollars).
Director Namcito (director of the film Gái già lắm chiêu) also announced to everyone that his personal Facebook account and related accounts such as Fanpage, Instagram... had been compromised.
Subsequently, many friends of the director received a message asking them to transfer money to a bank account with a promise to repay it soon. Some friends of the director, who are artists, transferred money to the scammer, totaling nearly 10 million dollars.
