A lawyer was scammed online for nearly half a billion dong

(NLDO) - The crook used the trick of impersonating his daughter and leading the story, causing this lawyer to be scammed of nearly half a billion dong.

Mr. Trinh Cong Minh (72 years old, lawyer of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association) has just reported to the Ninh Thuan Provincial Police and provided evidence of being scammed of nearly half a billion VND.

Mr. Minh shared that he has a daughter and son-in-law in the US. A few days ago, he received a friend request on Facebook from an account named after his children. Without any doubt, he immediately accepted the friend request because he saw the photo and name of his daughter.

At noon on June 3, while on a business trip, he received a Facebook message from his "daughter" in the US asking about him.

This “daughter” said she had just registered to provide an additional service of transferring money and exchanging foreign currency from abroad to Vietnam. Every time a customer sends money back, “I will receive the money from the customer here first and then send it to you, Dad. Then you will receive the money and transfer it to the customer’s family for me,” and asked, “Do you think it’s okay, Dad?”

He immediately replied, "ok, son."

After that, this person continuously sent many messages, interacting with Mr. Minh like a real daughter would. This person even called Mr. Minh on messenger, many calls lasted only 10 seconds, 20 seconds and he said he could not hear anything clearly.

He thought that the network must be down overseas.

Content of conversation between Mr. Minh and his 'daughter' via Facebook

Not stopping there, the bad guy also used an account impersonating Mr. Minh's son-in-law to text, interact, and talk about his daughter's business in the US.

Immediately after that, this account said that there was a customer who needed to send 180 million VND and this girl told him to text the account number and told him to wait for this person to come to the customer's place to get the money.

This account sent Mr. Minh a screenshot of the successful transfer of 180 million with the content "daughter transfers money" and asked him to transfer it to the customer in Vietnam.

All afternoon, Mr. Minh was busy with his own work while texting his "daughter". He seemed to be led into a series of stories, with many reasons such as "the money you transferred to me will be in my account after 24 hours, and right now the guest house urgently needs it to take care of some business".

This account asked him to transfer money to a customer's account in Vietnam, account 0899883499, account holder Nguyen Huynh Bao, MBBank .

After that, this account also sent many other money transfer photos to Mr. Minh and texted continuously, begging "Dad, please help me arrange it". After that, Mr. Minh borrowed more money to transfer 4 times to the above account with a total amount of 488 million VND.

In the message, Mr. Minh also expressed his annoyance with this son and told him, "Don't do this again next time."

It was only when the scammer repeatedly asked him to transfer 800 million VND and texted him to urge him to borrow money that he realized he had been scammed.

“I want to share this story to warn people to avoid it,” said Mr. Minh.

Mr. Minh has reported to the police and provided evidence proving the money transfer and the fraudster's actions. He has also contacted the bank to coordinate to prevent the money from being withdrawn from the account.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/mot-luat-su-bi-lua-qua-mang-gan-nua-ti-dong-196250605174405645.htm