Transfer money by mistake and then set up a loan shark trap

The financial company Fe Credit has just warned about a new form of fraud, with very sophisticated and difficult-to-identify tricks. Accordingly, the scammers collect personal information such as names, phone numbers... of people and intentionally transfer money to the wrong account of the victim. The purpose of this behavior is to force the victim to borrow money even though they do not need it.

Next, the scammer impersonates a financial company employee to contact the victim by phone and collect the debt at an exorbitant interest rate. With these sophisticated fraud tricks, the subject has turned the recipients of the mistaken money transfer into loan sharks.

Therefore, Fe Credit recommends that customers should go directly to the bank to verify or contact the police to resolve when receiving money transfers of unknown origin.

Images of fake financial company applications and contracts

Mcredit Finance Company also warns of many scams, including impersonating employees of this finance company to provide loan products or other related programs such as refunds, rewards, fee refunds, etc. The subject asks customers to provide Mcredit app login information and OTP security code for support. If the above information is provided, the scammer will take advantage of it to conduct transactions on the Mcredit App to steal from customers.

In addition, in the context of economic difficulties, many people need to receive benefits and apply for jobs. Fraudsters will impersonate charities and job brokers to gain trust and instruct customers to provide information and identification documents. Then use the victim's documents to register for loans on financial apps.

Financial companies, banks, e-wallets... continuously warn about fraudulent tricks

"Some victims were guided to electronics and motorbike stores to sign loan documents for large loans but did not receive the money or products. In this case, the scammer took advantage of the customer's information to make installment loans and also appropriated the installment products in the customer's name" - Mcredit warned.

Financial companies advise customers to be careful and never provide information such as account access passwords or OTP codes to anyone and in any form... to avoid being scammed, losing money unjustly or "suddenly" being charged high interest loans.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/dong-tien-thong-minh/chuyen-tien-nham-roi-gai-bay-cho-vay-nang-lai-20230703141026688.htm