On the afternoon of October 16, Ms. PTT (52 years old, residing in Anh village, Le Loi commune, Gia Loc district) received a phone call from a stranger claiming to be an officer of the Hanoi City Police Department , specializing in investigating cases related to drugs and money laundering.
This person informed that the phone number that Ms. T. was using was used to register a bank account and borrow 6.8 billion VND. To serve the investigation, the stranger asked Ms. T. to transfer all the money she had into the account provided by this person to complete the procedures to verify the assets and legalize the money. If she did not comply, Ms. T. would be arrested.
During the conversation, Ms. T. told the stranger that she was currently depositing 2 savings books in the credit fund, one book was 130 million VND, the other was 100 million VND. The stranger asked Ms. T. to withdraw all the money in the 130 million book to transfer to the account provided by this person, and would return it after 6 hours, and would instruct Ms. T. to transfer the remaining 100 million later.
Advised by the police officer, after withdrawing the money, Ms. T. did not transfer the money to the stranger.
After receiving repeated threatening phone calls from strangers, at around 1:00 p.m. on October 17, Ms. T. withdrew all 130 million VND in savings from a credit union and brought it to a gold shop in Gia Loc Town (Gia Loc District) to have it transferred to a stranger.
Through contact, the gold shop staff saw that Ms. T. was speaking hesitantly and panicking, so they talked to her, tried to calm her down, and at the same time reported the incident to Gia Loc District Police.
Immediately afterwards, Gia Loc District police officers promptly arrived and explained to Ms. T. the tricks and methods of appropriating property through the internet and telephone of the fraud suspects. At the same time, they urged Ms. T. not to listen to or follow any requests from strangers.
After calming down, Ms. T. understood the nature of the incident, did not transfer money to the stranger's account and returned home.
According to statistics from Gia Loc District Police, in addition to the above case, from the beginning of October until now, there have been 2 cases in the district where people were almost scammed in a similar manner.
Accordingly, on October 4, Mr. NVN (52 years old, residing in Hong Hung commune, Gia Loc district) received a phone call from a stranger claiming to be a Hanoi City Police officer informing him that Mr. N. was involved in human trafficking, transnational fraud and money laundering. This person asked Mr. N. to transfer 450 million VND to the account provided by this person.
Most recently, on October 2, Ms. BTL (65 years old, residing in Gia Luong commune, Gia Loc district) received a phone call from a stranger, also claiming to be an officer of Hanoi City Police, informing her that Ms. L. was involved in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering, and asked her to transfer 650 million VND.
Gia Loc District Police have coordinated with other units to promptly prevent cases of fraud and property appropriation under the form of impersonating police officers.
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