Binh Duong police warn of a very new ‘trick’ through citizen identification with a chip

Binh Duong Provincial Police have just issued a warning about the situation of fraud to appropriate property with new forms through cyberspace.

Accordingly, through the fight against criminals using high technology, Binh Duong Provincial Police discovered that recently, a number of tricks have emerged that take advantage of telecommunications networks, the internet, and social networks to fraudulently occupy take property.

Among these, there are new “tricks” such as asking for a photo of people’s identity cards, citizen identification cards (CCCDs) and paying people to be photographed for the purpose of exploiting information for fraud.

According to the police, the QR code and chip on the CCCD card contain a lot of personal information of citizens that high-tech criminals can thoroughly take advantage of, just relying on the QR code or the information on the CCCD. clear private information of citizens. Since then, criminals use the citizen’s ID and CCCD images to register for bank accounts, borrow money on the app, register for postpaid phone numbers, register for a virtual tax code, etc.

In addition, Binh Duong Provincial Police also warn of other forms of fraud through cyberspace such as: pretending to be phone carriers to announce that your phone subscriber number has won a prize of great value, pretending to be being a bank officer, pretending to be a police officer, court, procuratorate, post office… calling to notify people involved in the case or sanctioning traffic violations, then asking the victim to follow steps to obtain money.

Taking advantage of the gullibility and the victim’s need to make quick money, the fake subjects recruited collaborators to process orders for e-commerce platforms to carry out the act of appropriating property; Scams through online exchanges; Using personal information, images of leaders of government agencies, mass organizations… to set up social networking accounts (zalo, facebook…) to impersonate.

After that, the subjects created impersonated accounts to make friends, send messages to exchange loans, borrow money from friends, relatives, colleagues, access below… and appropriate money from the victims transferred to them; How to lend money through the app (borrow money online); Taking advantage of the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, the subjects created social media accounts to post and sell anti-epidemic medical tools and equipment… When the victim connected and made a deposit or paid the agreed amount. , the subjects blocked contacts, changed phone numbers… and appropriated money.

Xuan An