Warning about charity calls from fake Facebook accounts

Taking advantage of people's compassion and love, many people have created fake Facebook pages to call for charity. These people impersonate agencies, organizations, and individuals to make profits, posting heartbreaking images, touching clips, and heartfelt words calling for help and support... causing hundreds of people to willingly transfer money without having time to verify.

Since mid-April, on the social network Facebook, a page called "Bao Yen District General Hospital" has appeared calling for support for a pediatric patient. The post reads: " 🆘🆘🆘 CALL FOR SUPPORT. THIS IS ALSO THE ONLY RARE TIME THAT BAO YEN DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL HAS CALLED FOR DONATIONS.

☎️☎️☎️ATTENTION: HUYEN BAO GENERAL HOSPITAL ONLY USES 1 ACCOUNT NUMBER FOR NGOC AN'S FATHER. ACCOUNT NUMBER: 072538000. BANK NAME: VIB . ACCOUNT HOLDER: NGUYEN DUC LANG

☘️☘️My name is NGUYEN NGOC AN, born on September 3, 2023. Currently living with my grandparents in BAO YEN DISTRICT, LAO CAI PROVINCE.

I smile like that but can bleed anywhere at any time: nose, mouth, ears, digestive system...

The conclusion of the doctors at the National Children's Hospital is that the child has Wiskott Aldrich Combined Immunodeficiency, a disease rate of 1:1000,000 boys and the only way to cure the child is a BONE BONE TRANSPLANT. The child's platelet count sometimes drops to 6, causing nosebleeds, bloody stools, severe eczema, sepsis, chronic colitis"... The article is accompanied by heartbreaking images of the child bleeding, which many people sympathize with.

Fake Facebook page calling for charity.

On May 4, this article continued to be posted on the Facebook page "Bao Yen District General Hospital", at the link: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085452168122. The article attracted 16 thousand likes, hearts and more than 1 thousand comments. Therefore, many people transferred money to support the account number introduced in the article and sent the transfer information via the comment section with messages: Wishing you a speedy recovery, peace; "hope you recover soon", "wish you good health"... The amount of support varies, from 50 thousand VND to 500 thousand VND...

This page posts pictures and activities of Bao Yen District General Hospital, Lao Cai Province. The introduction of this page includes information about the hospital's Board of Directors, the hospital's address, and a link to the website of Bao Yen District General Hospital.

The charity post attracted many comments.

After learning the information, Bao Yen District General Hospital took action, writing a post on the hospital's official Facebook page to widely warn the public: " Currently, we have just discovered a fake fanpage using the name of Bao Yen District General Hospital to post false information, calling for illegal charity support, showing signs of fraud. This fake fanpage is not under the management of Bao Yen District General Hospital. All activities calling for money transfers and support from the fake fanpage are fraudulent acts.

Bao Yen District General Hospital would like to confirm: We only use one official fanpage about the hospital's activities (currently has 3.1K likes, 5.1K followers). In addition to the above addresses, all fanpages, accounts or websites impersonating Bao Yen District General Hospital are fake, showing signs of fraud .

Ms. Phung Thi Quy, Head Nurse, Bao Yen District General Hospital, who is also the direct manager of the hospital's Facebook page, shared: Immediately after receiving information about a social networking page impersonating the hospital's social networking page, we widely notified the public on the official page so that everyone can be vigilant, not to share, not to transfer money and not to provide personal information to fake fanpages. If you discover a fanpage or account suspected of impersonating the hospital, please send information to the official fanpage for verification. We hope to receive support from the community to end fraudulent and fraudulent behaviors.

Official Facebook page of Bao Yen District General Hospital.

To protect the reputation of the unit as well as the interests of the people, Bao Yen District General Hospital invited Pho Rang Town Police (Bao Yen) to intervene. The working minutes affirmed: "According to information provided by Mr. Ngo Van Hoang - Deputy Director of Bao Yen District General Hospital: Fanpage named "Bao Yen District General Hospital" with the link (link - PV) https://we facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085452168122 is not of Bao Yen District General Hospital. The fanpage calls for donations through the account of Vietnam International Commercial Joint Stock Bank - VIB, account number: 073410124, is not the bank account of Bao Yen District General Hospital. The patient named in the article is not a patient of Bao Yen District General Hospital. Bao Yen District General Hospital requests Pho Rang Town Police to verify and clarify which organization or individual manages the above fanpage".

Many people also went to the "call for help" post to warn. Ms. Tran Thi Trang, in Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi shared: Seeing my friend transfer money, I also intended to support. However, after receiving information that this was a fake district hospital page, I went to the page and commented to warn "It's a scam, everyone", hoping that many people would read it and not transfer money anymore.

The fake article was also shared on many Facebook pages with the names of different hospitals such as: Bac Quang Regional General Hospital, Bao Son General Hospital... and also attracted many people to transfer money to support.

Under the warning post of Bao Yen District General Hospital, a Facebook user named "Cun Pao Ngoc" commented: "This patient was previously impersonated by someone who also called for support while being treated at Thanh Hoa Provincial General Hospital. This is a fake call. If anyone wants to support, please verify the phone number of the hospital where the patient is actually being treated before supporting!"

A Facebook account warned the community after transferring donations.

The Ministry of Public Security has also warned people about the emergence of criminals creating websites and Facebook pages impersonating universities, advertising training centers, semester training courses, military and police summer camps... for children to approach parents in need and entice them to deposit money to participate in order to appropriate property. At the same time, it is recommended that people: be vigilant, only register to participate and transfer money when they have clearly understood the information of the organizing unit. When discovering fraud or property appropriation, it is necessary to quickly report to the nearest police agency and reflect via the VNeID application.

Authorities need to actively investigate and handle cases of fraud and illegal charity calls. People also need to be vigilant, identify charitable activities, and speak out against scams on social networks to avoid being taken advantage of.

Source: https://baolaocai.vn/canh-bao-keu-goi-tu-thien-tu-tai-khoan-facebook-gia-mao-post401379.html