Woman lost nearly 300 million VND after receiving a call from a “shipper”

After receiving a phone call from a person claiming to be a “shipper”, Ms. L. (residing in Hoa Dong commune, Krong Pac district) fell into a scam and lost nearly 300 million VND in her account.

Sharing with reporters, Ms. NTHL said that in the early afternoon of June 7, 2025, a strange phone number called her number, claiming to be a delivery staff and informing her that she had a package sent to her, and that she needed to transfer 12,000 VND for the package to be delivered.

Because the personal information matched, at that time she had a package being sent from her hometown (Nghe An province) to Dak Lak , so she did not suspect anything and transferred 12 thousand VND in shipping fee.

Transaction history of Ms. NTHL's account was scammed by a scammer to withdraw money online.

A moment later, the subject called back and said that I gave you the wrong account number, that account number is to register as a delivery staff, please call the switchboard to cancel, otherwise you will be deducted 3 million VND every month because they have your account number.

Then Ms. L. called the shipper's number, the subject instructed her to access the website to complete the procedure. After following the instructions, Ms. L. continued to receive a video call, the subject asked Ms. L. to bring the phone up to her face to confirm the owner.

A short while later, Ms. L. discovered that 289 million VND had been deducted from her account. The subjects continued to tell her to call her family to borrow more money to deposit into her account and follow their instructions to get her entire amount refunded.

However, her family suspected that Ms. L. had been scammed, so they kept her phone and reported the incident to the police.

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/phap-luat/202506/nguoi-phu-nu-bi-mat-gan-300-trieu-dong-sau-khi-nhan-cuoc-goi-cua-shipper-c7f0a94/