Fraud, threats to destroy social insurance dossiers
Over the past time, the situation of people being scammed by subjects impersonating and impersonating social insurance agencies has become increasingly common.
According to Mr. V.H's reflection, Mr. V.H's family received a call from a subject claiming to be a social insurance payment staff member. This person used many sophisticated tricks, exploiting psychology to defraud, in order to appropriate a large amount of money. The subject instructed to access a website with signs of fraud.
After that, a person named N.V.T.friended Mr. H. on Zalo and continued to guide the implementation of steps such as: Providing personal information (bank, account number); sending a QR code next to the icon and the word "Social Insurance"; requesting to enter the bank application, scan the QR code and make a transfer (requesting to hide citizen identification information)
When Mr. H became suspicious and stopped, the subject called to urge him to continue. Then he also requested transaction confirmation using facial recognition with the reason of a large amount of money.
Recognizing signs of fraud, Mr. H promptly stopped and blocked contact. The subject also threatened that if he did not comply, it would affect the insurance benefits of his family members.
Mr. H realized that this is a new form of fraud, very sophisticated, taking advantage of the name of the social insurance agency. Mr. H also sent information requesting competent authorities to consider, verify and handle it.
The social insurance agency never requires the provision of password information, OTP code or money transfer requests.
Sharing information on this issue, Vietnam Social Security said: Vietnam Social Security thanks people for proactively providing information about cases showing signs of impersonating social insurance agencies to commit acts of fraud and appropriation of property.
Through the reflected content, the subjects have used sophisticated methods and tricks such as impersonating social insurance employees, contacting via phone and social networks, guiding access to websites with signs of forgery, requesting to provide personal information, bank account information and performing transaction verification operations. These are acts that potentially pose a risk of fraud, affecting the rights and property of people.
Vietnam Social Security has recorded information provided by people and transferred it to functional units for coordination in considering and handling according to regulations.
Faced with this situation, Vietnam Social Security recommends that people raise their vigilance, not provide personal information, bank accounts, OTP codes or make financial transactions according to the instructions of calls, messages or social network accounts of unknown origin.
Vietnam Social Security does not require people to provide passwords, OTP codes, bank account information or transfer money to resolve and pay social insurance and health insurance benefits.
When people need to look up and carry out procedures on social insurance, they need to use the official information channels of the social insurance agency and contact functional agencies when detecting signs of suspicion of fraud.
People's timely reflection of information contributes to helping functional agencies improve the effectiveness of prevention and combat of fraudulent acts in cyberspace.
