On September 30, Dong Da District Police ( Hanoi ) announced that they had received a complaint from Ms. L. (born in 1954, living in Dong Da District) about being scammed out of more than 300 million VND by a person impersonating a police officer.

Specifically, on September 23, Dong Da District Police received a report from Ms. L. about receiving a phone call from a person claiming to be a police officer, saying that she was involved in a money laundering case and owed the bank more than 50 million VND.

Then, the subject connected her to talk to a person claiming to be an officer of the Supreme People's Procuracy, asking her to transfer money to serve the investigation.

Out of fear, Ms. L. went to the bank and transferred more than 300 million VND to the subject. Later, Ms. L. discovered that she had been scammed, so she went to the police to report.

Hanoi City Police recommends that people be vigilant and inform their relatives and friends about the above tricks to avoid falling into the traps of bad guys, especially the elderly and those lacking information.

To work with people, the police will directly send invitations, summonses or send them through local police. They absolutely will not ask people to transfer money to bank accounts.

When detecting cases with signs of fraud as above, people need to immediately report to the nearest police station.

4 impersonation scams that bad guys are using to attack users Impersonation scams are considered one of the 'hot spots' in cyberspace. According to the Department of Information Security ( Ministry of Information and Communications ), last week, impersonation scams continued to increase sharply.