Impersonating a medical staff, threatening F0 to transfer money to avoid being sent to quarantine
The trick of the scammers is to claim to be a medical worker who calls to ask the person who is positive for SARS-CoV-2 to ask for money to be transferred so that they are not quarantined.
On April 4, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department warned people about the trick of impersonating a medical staff to take advantage of the epidemic. COVID-19 Fraudulent phone call to appropriate property. It is known that the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City and the switchboard of the City’s Department of Health have also received many complaints from people about this trick in recent times.
Specifically, the City Police said, the trick of the scammers is to claim to be an employee of the Center for Disease Control COVID-19 to call and ask the person who is positive for SARS-CoV-2 to meet. work, request to transfer money so as not to be sent to quarantine. This is a trick to impersonate a medical staff to scare, scam and appropriate people’s property. These objects use cell phone numbers and unknown prefixes (like +18444 1265410, +18445 3440501…). The police agency suggested that people who encounter this case should immediately report it to the local police for support and handling according to regulations.
In addition, the Ho Chi Minh City Police continue to ask people to be wary of fraudulent phone calls.
Specifically, fraudsters and high-tech criminals ask customers to text with the syntax **21*#. However, the **21*# syntax is actually a call forwarding syntax (Call Forward) – a service of network operators such as Mobifone, Vinaphone, and Vietnamobile that allows mobile subscribers to redirect calls to a number on-net or off-net phone. After that, the subjects will remotely log in to the victim’s Momo wallet application. Momo operator will call to provide OTP code, but this call is redirected to the subject’s phone number. From there, the bad guy appropriates the money in the wallet, the bank account associated with the wallet.
Bad guys can also ask customers to send text messages according to the DS syntax to 901. This is the syntax to change the phone sim to a blank sim card by texting method (SMS). Then, the bad guys will send fraudulent messages that help users upgrade the phone sim to 4G, 5G SIM. These objects require the user to text in the above syntax. When the operation is successful, the user will lose control of the sim because the fraudster’s sim becomes the “original” sim and accesses the e-wallet application and online payment application to appropriate money.
According to VNA
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