Warning of 5 online scam tricks

According to the Hanoi City Police, the forms of online scam The internet, social sites, telecommunications networks… have been complicated in recent times, not only in Hanoi but also across the country with many sophisticated new tricks, causing confusion. great damage on property.

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Therefore, the unit recently reviewed the common tricks being applied by crooks, and advised people to pay attention to the following cases:

Impersonating carriers call to notify the telephone subscriber number (of the “prey”) has won a prize of great value, to receive that property there must be a fee. If you agree, you need to buy a scratch card and load it into the account number provided by the scammers. When people pay money to receive rewards, crooks intercept communication and appropriate money.

Subject pretending to be a bank officer, call the victim to inform that someone has transferred money to the account but due to an error, it has not been able to transfer or notify the customer’s Internet Banking money transfer software is faulty… They will ask the customer to provide a code card and OTP code to check. Subjects use the information provided by the victim to access the victim’s account and withdraw money.

Pretending to be a police officer or a court Call to notify people involved in the case or fines for traffic violations, request victim transfer money to the account given by the fraudsters for investigation and handling. When people were afraid and transferred money, the subjects appropriated it.

Taking advantage of gullibility and the need to make quick money of the victim, the fake subjects recruited collaborators to process orders for the e-commerce platform to perform the act of appropriating property. By the trick of setting up fake Facebook pages of brands, e-commerce sites like Tiki, Lazada, Shopee… and running ads…

When the victim wants to be a collaborator, the subjects will send a link to buy the product and the subject will return the entire amount of the goods along with a commission of 3 – 20%. However, after a number of times of creating trust, the subjects continued with large value orders and appropriated the victim’s money to transfer.

Taking advantage of the epidemic situation Covid-19 to defraud the property. Objects that create accounts Social Network to sell anti-epidemic medical tools and equipment… When the victim connects and deposits or pays the agreed amount, the subjects block contact, change phone numbers… and appropriate amount received. Or taking advantage of the increased demand for people from abroad to return home, the subjects created fake social media accounts to post news on pages, groups, etc. to sell airline tickets to people in need. demand from abroad.