People need to be careful with tricks of providing information after commune merger.

Although she was cautious when receiving a call from a strange phone number, when the person on the other end of the line claimed to be an official of Commune A, where Ms. Ng.TN was living, and the information about her family and daughter was quite accurate, Ms. N. was also less vigilant.

The other end of the line said that during the process of updating data after the commune merger, her daughter, AP, who was about to enter 6th grade, had some incorrect information. In order not to affect her child's rights and social security insurance (as the scammers said), she had to go to the commune administrative center to supplement the information within 3 days.

When Ms. N. said that her family was busy, they gave her another phone number and asked her to call for support. Because she was afraid that she would not be able to provide additional information in time and would lose her daughter's rights in the future, Ms. N. did as they were told. The next step was to trick Ms. N. into making friends on Zalo and following the instructions. Losing her guard, Ms. N. continued to perform the operations and clicked on the links provided by the scammers. As a result, the entire amount of more than 3 million VND in Ms. N.'s account "disappeared".

Using the same trick, Ms. HTP, MT Ward received a call asking her to go to the ward's public administration center to provide additional information to facilitate insurance for her son who will attend high school next year. Hearing that the information about her son, from home address to school, was correct, Ms. P. was not at all cautious. On her way to work, she stopped by the public administration center and called the number that had called her to request a meeting, but the other end of the line hung up and blocked her phone number. Only then did Ms. P. realize she had been scammed.

“If I were at home, I would have followed the scammers’ instructions and requests. Because I thought the information about my son was accurate and I heard that students would soon enjoy many benefits from the streamlining of the apparatus, I was not on guard,” said Ms. P.

By knowing the information of students who have transferred to a higher level, and taking advantage of the fear of losing benefits or having trouble in their children's learning process if they do not promptly provide personal information, many parents have been scammed and had their money taken.

To make it easier for victims to trust and lose their vigilance, in addition to accurate information about their children, they use psychological manipulation tricks. When calling, they do not rush or threaten, but only warn that if they do not provide timely information, they will lose their children's rights. Furthermore, they do not require people to follow instructions over the phone, but encourage people to go to public administrative centers to transact directly. This makes the victims lose their vigilance and then they manipulate their psychology, leading the victims to call someone else for instructions if they need to provide additional information online. From there, they lure them into clicking on links containing malicious code and steal money from their accounts.

To avoid being scammed, it is best not to click on links provided by strangers and not to follow instructions that are said to support providing online information.

Article and photos: VY VY

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