Ministry of Public Security warns of new scams

New scam methods appear

Lieutenant General To An Xo, Chief of the Office of the Ministry of Public Security – said that in addition to traditional scams such as: Impersonating a state agency official or a senior leader to trick him into applying for a job or “running for office”. , “running a project”, applying for a project, borrowing capital from foreign organizations and individuals; calling for investment and funding in companies, projects, programs… those who have taken advantage of cyberspace to conduct fraudulent activities to appropriate property with sophisticated and diverse methods of approach victim.

Many cases have a large number of victims participating in many localities across the country with typical tricks such as: Using social networks to make friends, sending gifts, then pretending to be airport or customs officers , tax… requesting the victim to pay freight, taxes, fees, fines… to bank accounts designated by the subjects and then appropriate;

Or pretend to be an official of a state agency, police, procuracy, or court to call to notify the subscriber that is involved in the cases or cases being resolved, threaten, request the victim to transfer money or exploit the victim’s bank account information, from which to log in to the victim’s account and transfer money to the subject’s bank accounts to appropriate.

Lieutenant General To An Xo, Chief of Office of the Ministry of Public Security, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security.

In addition to the above forms, Lieutenant General To An Xo also said that recently, fraudsters who appropriate property take advantage of cyberspace for criminal activities tend to increase, with many tricks, such as: : Create websites, trading floors, money-making applications, use “bait” with high profits to call and entice investment in virtual currency, foreign exchange (Forex) business, rights trading floor binary options… according to the multi-level model. Then interfere with the technical system, make investors lose or crash to appropriate assets; Posting fake information about difficult circumstances to mobilize charity donations and appropriate funds raised; Taking advantage of the purchase and sale of goods on online sales websites on social networks… to defraud and appropriate property.

More specifically, it is a type of criminal that defrauds and appropriates assets in economic fields such as finance, securities, investment, corporate bond issuance, etc. with very sophisticated tricks, taking advantage of loopholes. in mechanisms, policies and laws to conduct criminal activities, causing heavy damage to the economy, people and businesses.

Faced with the complicated situation of property fraud, the Ministry of Public Security proactively grasped the situation and promptly advised the Prime Minister to issue Directive No. 21/CT-TTg dated May 25 2020 on strengthening prevention and handling of fraudulent activities to appropriate property.

In particular, the Ministry of Public Security, with its assigned functions and duties as the permanent agency to implement the Directive, has issued many plans to direct professional units of the Ministry and local police across the country to synchronously deploy take professional measures, strengthen the prevention, stop and handle fraudulent activities to appropriate property.

Dong Thap police temporarily detained the subject of fraud and appropriation of property.

Leaders of the Ministry of Public Security assigned the Criminal Police Department to be the main public sector unit, to advise and organize the implementation of many plans and measures to prevent and combat crime, fraud and appropriation; promote the synergy of the whole political system and enlist the people’s consent, support and assistance in movements to protect political security and social order and safety; improve the efficiency of grasping the situation, methods and tricks of the activities of subjects and lines involved in fraudulent activities to appropriate property; focus on receiving and handling denunciations of information about crimes, focusing on detecting, investigating and handling strictly and thoroughly in cases. fraudulent appropriation of assetsin order to deter and curb the increase of this type of crime.

Handling more than 2,000 scammers in a year

In 2021, the Criminal Police force alone arrested and handled 1,691 cases of fraud to appropriate property (reaching 74.46%) and handled 2,089 subjects. Typically, the Criminal Police Department broke a special project to fight against a group of people who cheated and appropriated property by impersonating a bank officer, operating in Hanoi and some other localities. led by Le Tu Quang, born in 1993.

Accordingly, the Ha Tinh police fought a special project to dismantle a fraud line to appropriate property online in the form of online sales collaborators; arrested, summoned 83 to exchange statues, initiated 41 defendants…

Thanh Hoa police arrested the subject of fraud and appropriation of property through social networks.

In the first quarter of 2022, the Criminal Police force arrested and handled 372 cases of property appropriation fraud (reaching a rate of 79.15%) and handled 491 subjects. Typically, on December 15, 2021, Nghe An police arrested Phan Van Tai, born in 1996, for fraudulently appropriating property; From June 2021 to now, the subject has used many social media accounts to post in charity groups and associations with content related to people in difficult circumstances, calling on people to transfer money to their accounts. object to support the baby, trick 1,617 victims with an amount of more than 200 million dong…

In order to prevent criminals from defrauding and appropriating property, the Ministry of Public Security spokesman advised: people need to increase their knowledge of laws and policies, regularly monitor notifications of criminal tricks and methods. by authorities in the media and mass media. Research and check carefully before making financial transactions, watch out for investments that bring “high returns”.

As for the crime of fraud and appropriating property in cyberspace, it is recommended that people be vigilant when receiving incoming calls with landline numbers, callers claiming to be officials of state agencies, especially especially the police force to notify and request investigation of the case by phone, do not provide personal information, phone number, home address… to any object when the person is unknown. identity and background of that person, especially disobeying the subjects who transferred money to the accounts designated by the subjects.

When buying goods online, people need to carefully screen and check advertising and sale information about goods, identity of sellers, choose reputable addresses, and transparent payment methods. Regularly check and update security and privacy features on social network accounts. Regularly change to ensure the security of the password; Do not share too much personal information on social networks.

In addition, absolutely do not lend or lease relevant personal papers such as: citizen identification, identity card, household registration book, bank card, do not accept bank transfers or receive money Bank transfers to unknown people.

In case of suspicion of fraudulent activities to appropriate property, promptly notify the agency police nearest place to receive and solve instructions.

According to Dan Tri