Investigate a group of people impersonating provincial leaders to commit fraud and appropriate property

Specifically, recently in Quang Nam province, there have been a number of objects impersonating Facebook, Zalo, and Gmail accounts of leaders of some state agencies to make friends with lower-level officials and employees afterwards. direct the transfer of money for agency work or borrow money to handle urgent work in order to appropriate.

Through the social network Facebook, Zalo, the subject accesses the personal pages (real accounts) of leaders of departments and agencies, then collects information and takes personal pictures and then creates another account (account) fake account), with the same name and using the newly obtained image as the profile picture, made friends with many people in the friends list, mainly friends within the real account.

Next, the subjects performed fraud by texting to inquire and build trust with those who had just made friends.

These subjects borrowed a large amount of money and requested to deposit money into another person’s bank account number, in the name of the account holder or an account number with similar names, the leaders of departments and branches that they acquired online. .

After that, this group of people suggested that the person who had just made a friend, immediately transfer money to strange account numbers to serve the work of the agency.

Quang Nam Provincial Police have received a lot of information from provincial leaders and leaders of departments and agencies about taking pictures to scam by texting relatives and acquaintances of these leaders and cadres.

The provincial police have sent a notice to the Provincial People’s Committee to send to departments, agencies and branches to propagate and remind officials and employees about the methods and tricks of this target group.

Authorities also suggested that people should raise their vigilance and proactively prevent methods and tricks of the target group with the above behavior.

In particular, pay attention when others ask to borrow money via social networks Facebook, Zalo, suggesting that people should check to verify the correct information.

Cong Sang