On the evening of March 17, an account posted an article on social media asking the technology motorbike taxi driver to return the money after many unsuccessful contacts since mistakenly transferring the rental fee from 71,000 VND to 71 million VND.
Talking to a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Ms. V.T.L (phone number 09xx89) admitted to being the one who posted the above information and said that she booked a technology trip on the afternoon of March 15, mistakenly transferring money to the service driver but did not know.
"The money transfer account is under the name of D.T.H.Y, this is an account used by Ms. Y and I in business. After transferring the money, we did not know, but it was not until the evening that we added the check book and found a mistake, then discovered that the money had been transferred incorrectly," said Ms. L.
Explaining why they mistakenly transferred large sums of money while banking applications all required biometric scanning, Ms. L said that because they often transfer money many times in business, biometric scanning has gradually become a habit, so when they saw the application request and while busy and unattended, they performed biometric scanning as usual, leading to mistakenly transferring up to 71 million VND without knowing.
"On the evening of March 15, after the discovery, we contacted the driver, but he turned off the phone. After that, we texted and transferred an additional 10,000 VND with the message but also did not receive a response," said Ms. L.
To get the money back, the transferor also texted on the technology car company's application, and the support application contacted this driver but failed. When requested to provide driver information, the technology car company refused because it only provided personal information as requested by the authorities. Changing the application page will help continue to contact the above driver.
According to Ms. L, posting the above information on a fairly crowded and reputable group in Vung Tau was because she hoped that the driver would know the information and contact her to return the money. On the morning of March 18, Ms. Y and Ms. L went to the police station to report the incident.
