On the afternoon of June 20th, the Criminal Police Department of Tay Ninh Provincial Police received a plea for help from Ms. TTN (residing in Tay Ninh City, Tay Ninh Province) regarding a scam in which an individual impersonating a bank employee defrauded her of over 920 million VND by promising her job opportunities online.
Ms. N shared: “Because I needed to find a job, I went on Facebook. There, I saw a job posting for VPBank and left my contact number. Afterward, a woman named Yen Ly called, introducing herself as an employee of the human resources department at VPBank's Hanoi branch. She asked me to download the Microsoft Teams application to exchange information.”
Next, Ms. N. was added to the "Group of 20 VPbank Preliminary Selection" group by Yen Ly. In this group, the perpetrators instructed Ms. N. to access the website "Thudophattrien.com" and create a separate account for her to perform tasks such as depositing, withdrawing, and placing orders. They transferred several hundred thousand dong to Ms. N. to gain her trust. Then, the perpetrators lured Ms. N. into using her own bank account to deposit more money into the account they provided. Ms. N. would receive a higher amount, ranging from 50% to 300%.
Driven by greed, Ms. N. transferred money to them eight times in two days, totaling 922 million VND. Seeing the large sum, Ms. N. tried to withdraw the money, but they gave various excuses such as tax payments, network errors, account upgrades, etc. Only when they blocked her phone number did Ms. N. realize she had been scammed.
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