Fraud to buy branded handbags, female monsters appropriate tens of billions of dong

On June 5, Ba Dinh District Police (Hanoi) is temporarily holding Cao Phuong Thao (SN 2001, residing in Vien An commune, Ung Hoa district, Hanoi) to investigate the act of “fraud to appropriate asset”.

Previously, on June 1, the police of Lieu Giai ward received a report from Ms. HKAC (SN 1986) about the afternoon of May 31, while sitting at a cafe on Van Cao street (Lieu Giai ward), she had Facebook network to view and order branded handbags. Ms. C went to the Facebook page “Meelle” and texted to ask to buy a handbag.

After a while, there was a Facebook account named “Bui Thi Minh Tam” who sent a private message to Ms. C, introducing herself as the owner of the “Meelle” shop and advising on handbags. Ms. C asked to buy 2 handbags, the person claiming to be the shop owner “Meelle” asked to transfer the amount of 47,900,000 VND to an Agribank bank account named Cao Phuong Thao, after which the subject blocked all communications. with the victim and appropriate the amount.

Subject Cao Phuong Thao. Photo: CA

Receiving the news, the police conducted verification and worked with the real “Meelle” shop owner and learned that the Facebook account named “Bui Thi Minh Tam” texting with Ms. C was a fake account to scam. . In addition, many customers of the shop “Meelle” reported that they had been scammed by a bank account named Cao Phuong Thao and a number of bank accounts with other names. In the process of expanding the investigation, the police determined that in addition to the “Meelle” shop, there were many other shops that were also used by the above group to scam with a similar form.

Quickly into the investigation, the police agency arrested Cao Phuong Thao (SN 2001, residing in Vien An commune, Ung Hoa district, Hanoi) to investigate the act of “fraud to appropriate property”. . Initially, the subject admitted his crime. Thao claimed to have deceived many people with the above tricks and appropriated tens of billions of dong.