“We accept making all kinds of certificates…”!?

Buying a degree is as easy as buying vegetables.

Every day, many people, including me, continuously receive text messages from strange phone numbers "advertising" to make documents such as: driver's licenses, intermediate certificates, university degrees, certificates, vehicle registration certificates... The content often received from text messages is: We accept to quickly make motorbike and car licenses, college and university degrees, citizen identification cards... and all kinds of documents as requested and leave a phone number when the buyer needs to contact. They even commit "this is a reputable address, confidential and 100% real".

In reality, the use of sophisticated tricks by subjects to falsify diplomas and documents with high accuracy causes difficulties for the investigation agency, negatively affects the reputation of training institutions, causes public outrage and complicates the recruitment of workers. Fake documents and fake diplomas come at different prices, including a health certificate priced at 600,000 VND, a citizen identification card at 900,000 VND; a driver's license (with documents) at 1.4 million VND; a land use right certificate costs from 1.5 to 4 million VND; university diplomas cost from 3 to 7 million VND (depending on the school and transcript)...

Recently, the Provincial People's Court brought Pham Tan Huy (born in 1984, residing in Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City) and 6 accomplices to trial for the crime of "Forgery of documents and seals of agencies and organizations". According to the indictment, in June 2020, Huy researched on the internet how to forge documents and ordered online machinery and equipment such as color printers, scanners, photocopiers, letterpress machines, plastic card printers, heat presses, cutters and materials for forgery. Huy rented a house in Binh Hung Hoa Ward, Binh Tan District (Ho Chi Minh City) to arrange and install machinery to commit the crime. After that, Huy and his accomplices posted on social networks offering to forge documents and seals of agencies and organizations at public prices so that individuals in need could contact them. The fake documents, when completed, will be sent to customers through delivery companies such as J&T, Viettel Post... After receiving the goods, customers will pay by bank transfer.

Using the above methods, from June 2020 to December 2021, Huy and his accomplices forged 665 documents and papers of agencies and organizations according to orders from individuals nationwide. In addition, Huy himself forged 1,214 types of documents and papers of agencies and organizations, illegally profiting hundreds of millions of dong.

Notably, through this case, the investigation agency has identified many subjects in the province who have been involved in buying and selling fake papers and documents. However, through the investigation, these subjects have not used them, so the case has been transferred to the local police to handle administrative violations according to their authority.

Raising public awareness

Pham Tan Quang (born in 1974, residing in Vinh An commune, Phu Vang district) received a deposit to sell a plot of land to a person residing in Hue city for 70 million VND. According to the agreement, after 1 month, the two parties would go to the notary office to transfer the name, but on the notarization date, Quang had the idea of asking someone else to make a fake land use right certificate to give to the victim and then continue to receive an additional 115 million VND from the land sale. After that, Quang and the buyer went to the People's Committee of Phu Vang district to sign and notarize the land use right transfer contract.

Upon inspection, the authorities discovered that the land use right certificate Quang provided showed signs of being forged, so the land registration office sent it to the Phu Vang District Police Investigation Agency to request an appraisal and confirmation that the land use right certificate was fake. Quang was prosecuted for using fake seals or documents of agencies and organizations.

According to the authorities, the use of fake documents and seals is a violation of the law, not only affecting the reputation, honor and interests of agencies and organizations when they are forged, but also affecting the security and order situation, social justice. To prevent the situation of fake documents, fake degrees, fake certificates; when receiving documents, diplomas and certificates, recruiting units need to verify the diplomas, certificates, trace the origin through the authorities, the police force or the organization or training units.

Along with the involvement of the authorities, each citizen needs to raise awareness to fight this type of crime.

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