Pretending to be post clerks and customs officials to defraud VND 30 billion

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The PC02 - Phu Tho province police has just cracked down on the international fraud group that defrauded assets on cyberspace up to tens of billion. Previously, in May 2020, the Investigation Police Agency (PC02) of Phu Tho Province Police Department received a letter of denunciation from Nguyen Thi Le Dung who was born in 1955 and permanently residing in Phu Ho commune. TX. Phu Tho, Phu Tho province.

According to the letter, a group of people using social networks to pretend to be postal clerks and customs officials to notify about receiving gifts then request fees payment of receiving gifts. Dung was defrauded a total of 695 million VND by those people.

Through the initial investigation, the police investigation agency found that in April 2019, Thai Ngoc Luu became acquainted with Enenwali Chijioke Collins who was born in 1986 and Nigierian. After a period of acquaintance, Luu married Collins. Then Luu discussed with Collins and let Collins buy an ATM card and ID card and give it to Luu to use. At the same time Collins and his friends who have Nigierian nationality, living in Cambodia and Malaysia used social networks to commit fraud through notifying about receiving gifts then requesting fees to receive the gifts

With the above tricks, from May 2019 up to now, Luu and her accomplices have committed fraud to appropriate property of victims in many provinces and cities in the country with a total of about VND 30 billion.

Through inspection, competent forces seized 138 ATM cards, 42 identity cards and many documents related to the use of social networks to commit fraud.

Through expanding investigation, Thai Ngoc Luu admitted that besides associating with the above foreigners, Luu also discussed and agreed with Nguyen Thi Hong to lie to people to get money. With the above trick, from September 2019 until now, Luu assigned Hong to withdraw about VND 3 billion and Hong was paid more than VND 60 million by Luu.

Based on documents in the case dossier, Phu Tho province Police prosecuted the accused and ordered detention for Thai Ngoc Luu (was born in 1983, residing in Vinh Thinh commune, Hoa Binh district, Bac Lieu province. She currently lives in room 9.05, Thai An apartment building, Trung My Tay ward, District 12) and Nguyen Thi Hong (born in 1987 and residing in Go Vap district, Ho Chi Minh City) for lying to people to get money under Article 174, Criminal Code.

Regarding this issue, Customs authorities have had many warnings about the act of defrauding charges of express delivery service from abroad to Vietnam, even forming a sophisticated fraudulent line. Customs authorities warned people to be alert to this.

Currently, with many types of smartphones which are easy to access social networks - this is fertile ground for criminals to intrude. Foreigners sought to know some Vietnamese women through Facebook. They took advantage of their trust and greed to cheat and promise to give valuable gifts and large sums of money, and then defrauded them of hundreds of millions of VND.

The foreign subject also make fraudulent documents and invoices of delivery, purchase, took a photograph and then sent it to the victims to create trust.

Customs authorities have warned about the above tricks appearing more and more and warning people to be alert when receiving strange calls and messages.

People should immediately notify authorities (Customs, Police) when there were suspicious signs to coordinate and solve. They should not handle by themselves because they could fall into criminal’s trap easily; detecting and immediately notifying competent authorities about suspect objects related to this criminal activity.