Someone has lost hundreds of millions because of the trap of “online collaborators”, the Ministry of Public Security guides how to prevent online fraud
The website of the Ministry of Public Security reported that the Quang Ninh Provincial Police Department has initiated prosecution of the case of “fraud to appropriate property”, specified in Article 174 of the 2015 Penal Code and is actively investigation for clarification.
The victim in this case is Ms. PTH (Born in 1990, Quang Hanh ward, Cam Pha city, Quang Ninh province) who was scammed to appropriate property with the amount of more than 822 million VND.
Previously, on January 3, 2022, while using Facebook, Ms. H saw an advertising folder displaying “Recruitment 2” with the words “Send a message”. Because she was looking for a job, Ms. H clicked on the above item to find out and received a message via the Messenger application with the content “Recruiting online salespeople”.
Ms. H actively left her phone number, then a Zalo account named “Nguyễn Thùy Dung” made friends and introduced herself as a Shoppe consultant and asked Ms. H to provide personal information, including her account. bank.
Dung gave Ms. H a collaborator code with the symbol A688 and then sent the links (each link sent by Dung corresponds to a product, these products are on Shoppe.vn website) and told Ms. H. Click this link to see the product code with the price.
In addition, Dung also provided a Techcombank bank account named “PHAM THU HA” and instructed Ms. H to perform the operation to buy the product listed in the link and then pay by transferring money to the above account number.
After transferring the money via the Banking application, about 10 minutes later, Ms. H’s account received the amount of money she bought for the product along with a 10% commission on the product value, Dung said this is a form of stimulus for the stall to increase sales. sales.
With the above method, the first time Dung sent Ms. H the link of the product code with the price of 340,000 VND, Ms. H transferred the money to order this product and received 374,000 VND in return, then this subject sent the link of the product code. costs 220,000 VND and a product code costs 639,000 VND, resulting in Ms. H receiving a total of 944,900 VND.
Due to the desire for profit, Ms. H continued to be scammed and led around by the objects, and Ms. H transferred a large amount of money to the subjects of more than 822 million dong.
Currently, the Police Department is continuing to investigate and clarify the above case.
The Ministry of Public Security advises people to be wary of fraudulent tricks to appropriate property via social networks.
Trick method:
– Impersonating employees of sites such as Shopee, Lazada, Tiki… enticing users to join collaborators (CTVs) to sell online with attractive 10-20% commissions…
– Ask the collaborator to place a virtual order and must pay for the order first, then receive the principal and commission for the order.
– Appropriating the entire amount of CTV paid for the order.
Precautions:
– Raise vigilance against fraudulent acts of appropriating assets online.
– Share, warn with relatives and neighbors the methods and tricks of criminals.
– Intelligence the nearest police agency when detecting or suspecting that fraudulent acts of appropriating property occur.
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