On the afternoon of September 19, C. (born in 2008, in Tue Tinh commune) received a call claiming to be a police officer, saying that she had something to do with a money laundering case. After that, the subject instructed the child to download Zoom Workplace software to work online. When the subject asked the child to declare his assets to serve the investigation, the child said he had no money.
At this time, the subject instructed the child to fake the kidnapping to get money from the family. After that, the subject told C to go to a hotel to rent a room to hide, not to answer any other call besides the call to "serve the investigation".
The subjects forced C to call his family to ask them to transfer 500 million VND to " redeem him" for being involved in a drug case. When receiving the call from his child, because the Commune Police had been propagandized and warned about fraud methods and tricks on the internet, the father of C promptly reported to the police.
Through professional measures, at around 2:00 p.m. the same day, Tue Tinh Commune Police promptly identified the address and brought C home safely. After picking up their children, C's family wrote a letter of thanks to the Tue Tinh Commune Police.
To avoid falling into the trap of fraud in general, the "online kidnapping" method in particular, the police agency recommends that people need to raise their vigilance, while proactively propagating to relatives and friends about the methods and tricks of this type of crime.
To work with people, the police will directly send invitations, summons or send them to the local police; Absolutely do not call people to ask them to transfer money to bank accounts or install software to serve the investigation. Schools need to regularly step up propaganda and warn students about fraud tricks to raise awareness of anti-fraud.
