On January 14, information from Hanoi City Police and Thai Hoa Commune Police said that the unit had recently prevented a fraud case with an amount of nearly 300 million VND, the victim was the owner of a facility. trading in audio equipment in the area.
Specifically, on January 3, 2024, Mr. Dao Van Cuong’s business (Thai Hoa, Ba Vi) received a large contract worth nearly 200 million VND from a new customer. After agreeing on a contract to buy audio equipment, this person asked Mr. Cuong to buy 3 high-pressure pumps for the fire-fighting system at his facility.
If the price is lower than 75 million VND/machine, Mr. Cuong will be given 30% of the difference, and will also provide another phone number for Mr. Cuong to contact to ask about buying a high-pressure pump. Mr. Cuong was quoted a price of 65 million VND/machine by the high pressure pump seller.
The fake image of successfully transferring money to Mr. Cuong was sent to the victim by the scammers. Photo: CAHN
After reporting back, this person asked Mr. Cuong to buy it for him to split the difference, and at the same time sent a text message to inform him that he had successfully transferred the amount of 279,000,000 VND, including the deposit to buy audio equipment and everything. Set the amount of money to buy 3 high pressure pumps to Mr. Cuong’s account number with an image of successful transfer attached.
Continuously, the high-pressure pump seller also called and texted, urging Mr. Cuong to transfer the money to buy the high-pressure pump to this person.
Immediately upon receiving information about the incident, Thai Hoa Commune Police quickly and promptly contacted Mr. Cuong to not follow the subjects’ requests, and instructed Mr. Cuong to verify bank transactions and identify There was absolutely no transaction activity transferring the amount of 279,000,000 VND to Mr. Cuong’s account. Thereby, helping Mr. Cuong identify the above two subjects as professional scammers.
At the same time, Thai Hoa Commune Police also propagated and explained to Mr. Cuong about the sophisticated tricks of scammers such as: Using technical words in the process of communicating with victims, creating an image. fake on social networking sites, post images of successful money transfers, invoice images, fake contract images, use a multi-person system to communicate with the victim in stages, continuously. Continue to urge the victim to make transactions, offering conditions that create attractive income for the victim…
The scammers built trust in the victim, at the same time giving the victim no time to think or ask for opinions from those around them, thereby asking the victim to transfer money for appropriation.
From the above incident, Ba Vi District Police recommend that people increase their vigilance against fraudulent acts via the Internet and telecommunications networks, be cautious in making transactions, transferring money, receiving money with strangers, and checking Check your bank account when transacting with others, do not confirm transactions through images. When there is any doubt about a case showing signs of fraud, people need to immediately contact the police for guidance and handling.