Warning tricks to impersonate medical staff to call scams to appropriate property

Recently, in Hanoi, there have been many cases of criminals impersonating people of law enforcement agencies such as the Police, Procuracy … and medical staff making fraudulent calls. appropriating people’s property. Faced with that situation, the police agency warned about this trick, but many people still “fall into traps” and have been misappropriated by scammers for hundreds or even billions of dong. Most of the victims are gullible, gullible and rarely update information on the mass media.

Specifically, on May 12, Ms. N. (SN 1990, living in Ha Dong district, Hanoi city) received a phone call from a person claiming to be a medical officer informing that Ms. N. had been tested. COVID-19 but not taking results. Subject said that Ms. N.’s personal information had been exposed and needed to contact the Hanoi City Police to be resolved. After that, the subject transferred the call to another person claiming to be a police officer and informed that Ms. N was involved in a money laundering and drug trafficking ring and had an arrest warrant. Subjects asked her to provide a bank account and password for verification. Ms. N. followed the subject’s instructions and then discovered that her bank account had lost more than 250 million VND. At this time, Ms. N. realized that she had been cheated and went to the police station to report it.

Before the scammers’ tricks, Hanoi City Police recommends people to be vigilant and propagate to relatives and friends about tricks to take advantage of the epidemic to impersonate health workers, police agencies. to defraud and appropriate property. People absolutely do not provide bank account information, OTP codes and transfer money to objects. When detecting cases of fraud as above, people should immediately report to the nearest police agency, or call the 113 switchboard, hotline 069.219.4053 for settlement.

According to VNA