Warning about the trick of "Recruiting child models to take photos as brand representatives"

Authorities recommend that people and businesses do not participate in online recruitment groups for child models without verified information.

These subjects advertise on websites and social networks such as Facebook, Zalo, and Viber about "Recruiting child models to participate in photo shoots as brand ambassadors". Then, they use many different tricks to scam people and businesses. The Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy in coordination with the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05) - Ministry of Public Security warns of new tricks of criminals to scam and appropriate property to people and businesses.

Accordingly, some new methods and tricks of criminals to defraud and appropriate property in the form of "Recruiting child models to take photos as brand representatives", with the aim of targeting parents with young children, living in big cities, such as: Hanoi , Ho Chi Minh City, ... to advertise that websites and e-commerce platforms are in need of recruiting child models to take photos as brand representatives.

These subjects use the advertising feature of social networks Facebook, Zalo, Viber..., the scammers will make friends and invite them to apply for child models for fashion brands. After the parents "take the bait", they will put them in a group/group chat to invite parents to join and become online collaborators in the form of purchasing products from other e-commerce platforms to receive commissions and increase their children's chances of being selected. The task of online collaborators is to participate in the task of purchasing products with increasing amounts of money and transferring money to accounts managed by them.

The scammers use the following tricks: for the first and second tasks performed by online collaborators, they pay the full commission and task fee (including the original money transferred to them + commission from 10-15%) to the participant's account (online collaborator) to create trust. Most of the victims (online collaborators) are only discovered to have been scammed after they have transferred from several hundred million to billions of VND to these subjects without receiving the original money back and being deleted from the exchange groups.

The Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy in coordination with the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05) - Ministry of Public Security recommends to people and businesses: Do not participate in online recruitment groups for child model recruitment without verified information, especially official information from brands. Do not provide personal information to strangers or strangers on the Internet; do not make friends or join Zalo, Facebook, Viber groups... that you do not know.

Brand owners need to warn/announce on mass media (newspapers, websites and social networking sites of the business, etc.) about the above fraudulent acts so that people know and avoid them. Regularly monitor and update crime information to prevent and report to the nearest police agency or provide information to brand owners about the above fraudulent acts.

MR. HUY

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