0 VND Race, 100 million VND Prize – A Scam That Is Spreading

Hiding behind charity races, many people have created fake fanpages, impersonating big brands to scam and appropriate people's money under the guise of participation fees.

Recently, as more and more races are organized, scammers also see this as an opportunity to make illegal profits. By creating fake social networking sites with information about races that look exactly like the real thing, under the name of reputable organizations, this trick has caused many victims to fall into the trap.

Online race "Green Vietnam", "Online race to green Truong Sa", " Petrolimex 2025 race"...

A series of advertising pages and race introductions flooded social networks. All were associated with the Petrolimex brand and attractive invitations such as: completely free participation, receiving valuable prizes. "Completely free participation, 1 first prize of 100 million VND, 1 second prize of 50 million VND, 1 third prize of 20 million VND. Let's join Petrolimex for a green Vietnam".

However, Petrolimex representatives confirmed that this was just a scam. All of these Facebook pages, although marked with a blue tick, were not owned by Petrolimex. By collecting information and images of previous races organized by Petrolimex, the subjects inserted false and fabricated information and posted it on social networks to lure people to participate, with the aim of defrauding and appropriating property.

Posing as someone who wanted to participate in the race, the reporter was invited by the scammer to join a group of 6 members. These were actually "brokers" posing as race participants. In this group, the leader asked each person who wanted to participate to transfer 359,000 VND to promote the brand of a sponsoring brand. Immediately, the "brokers" in the group sent pictures of the transfer and continuously urged.

As soon as they discovered that the "fish" did not bite, the scammers immediately deleted themselves from the group.

Not only luring people with fake races, social networks also appear many information pages recruiting gas station staff, cashiers, office staff, accountants... associated with the Petrolimex brand. However, Petrolimex representatives confirmed that this is completely fake information and many victims have fallen into the trap of these subjects.

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