Vietnamese people use the Internet nearly 7 hours a day

Vietnamese people use the Internet for many purposes, from information exchange, study, economic exchange, entertainment...; along with development, challenges regarding network security are becoming increasingly complex.

Colonel Ha Van Bac - Deputy Director of the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05), Ministry of Public Security - Photo: CHI HIEU

That is the information shared at the launching program of the Campaign "Anti-online fraud in 2025 - Slow but sure" organized by the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-tech Crime Prevention and Control - Ministry of Public Security on October 14 in Hanoi .

After 28 years of global Internet connection, Vietnam is one of the countries with the highest Internet growth rate in the world .

Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Do Thi (Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention - A05) gave statistics showing that Vietnam is ranked 12th in terms of Internet growth rate.

Notably, the amount of time Vietnamese users spend every day is about 6 hours and 38 minutes using the Internet in many fields, from information exchange, learning to economic exchange, entertainment... The development of technology comes with increasingly complex challenges in cybersecurity.

Lieutenant Colonel Thi pointed out that every minute that passes, around the world, about 2.9 million people become victims of cybercrime and high-tech crimes. Among them is online fraud, equivalent to 50,000 victims every second.

Speaking at the program, Colonel Ha Van Bac - Deputy Director of the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05), Ministry of Public Security - assessed that in 2024 alone, tens of thousands of online fraud cases were reported to the authorities.

The estimated loss caused by online fraud in Vietnam is nearly 20,000 billion VND, with more than 125,000 fake websites impersonating agencies and organizations, with hundreds of increasingly sophisticated and professional scenarios and tricks.

This number is also incomplete, many cases are not reported to authorities by people and organizations.

Mr. Nguyen Lam Thanh - General Director of TikTok Vietnam - Photo: CHI HIEU

In response to the campaign "Anti-online fraud in 2025 - Slow but steady", TikTok has implemented many unprecedented activities, when for the first time on the platform there will be support activities for each user account, such as users will receive notifications about fraudulent activities; sharing information about fraud prevention to 70 million Gmail users who have registered accounts.

Cooperating with authorities to detect search keywords with fraudulent elements, to prevent people from falling into the trap of fraudulent groups, this is an unprecedented action.

Mr. Nguyen Lam Thanh - General Director of TikTok Vietnam - presented a simple way to reduce risks: "Before doing anything on the internet, users just need to slow down for 3 seconds to think. During that time, do not rush to click on strange links, reply to messages or call someone to be able to keep their assets, maybe even save their lives."

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/nguoi-viet-dung-internet-gan-7-gio-moi-ngay-20251014142602738.htm