According to Ho Chi Minh City Police, the Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department has just coordinated with District 1 Police to handle many subjects counterfeiting brands and transportation services.
Specifically, Department PA05 invited PTD (48 years old, residing in District 12, driver) and HAT (37 years old, residing in Tan Binh District) to work.
Both admitted that they received information about the rides from Zalo groups managed by one account.
The participation fee is 300 thousand VND/month and the driver will be provided with customer information by the administrator to book a taxi service. When successfully transporting customers, the driver must pay the group administrator a commission of 15%/total fare.
From this declaration, Department PA05 applied professional measures, isolated and identified the administrator who specialized in providing rides for drivers, LVH (33 years old, residing in Di An City, Binh Duong Province).
H confessed that he had created many websites to do business in taxi pick-up services in Ho Chi Minh City. Then, H impersonated the call center of taxi companies and used Google advertising services, using H's phone number for the keywords: "Mai Linh taxi", "Vinasun taxi", "Mai Linh HCM taxi"... When customers want to book a car, when searching online with the above keywords, the Google search engine will give results that display H's phone number.
H claimed to be the call center of Mai Linh and Vinasun to arrange the car. But then, H used social networks to post information about customers booking rides on zalo groups with drivers as members. When a driver accepted the ride, H collected a fee of 15% of the total fare.
In addition, Department PA05 has just hired TVP (39 years old, living in District 11) to work. P also stated that it costs 300,000 VND/month to join the Zalo group and must pay 15% when receiving a ride from the Zalo group administrator.
Department PA05 has identified and invited to work with the administrator of the zalo group that driver P participated in. That is NNT (50 years old, living in Cu Chi district). T confessed to having the above method of operation.
From the investigation results, Department PA05 has handed over the cases and related subjects to District 1 Police for handling according to legal regulations.
Specifically, the police decided to fine TVP for the act of "Collecting, processing and using information of other organizations without consent or for purposes other than those prescribed by law" as prescribed in Clauses 3 and 4, Article 4 of Decree 15/2020/ND-CP dated February 3, 2020, amended and supplemented by Decree 14/2022/ND-CP dated January 27, 2022, with a fine of 7.5 million VND.
The police also issued a decision to administratively sanction LVH and NNT for the same act of "Providing information, trading in counterfeit goods, goods and services that infringe intellectual property rights or goods and services prohibited from trading on the Internet environment" as prescribed in Article 63 of Decree 98/2020/ND-CP dated August 26, 2020 with a fine of 15 million VND/person.
The police also requested that the subjects stop the act of faking switchboard phone numbers, which negatively affects the image and business of taxi transport companies in the area that are fully registered and operating under the supervision of the authorities.
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