24 people arrested for calling from Cambodia to scam thousands of billions of dong

On February 15, the Criminal Police Department of Tay Ninh Province Police arrested 24 people to investigate their behavior.Using computer networks, telecommunications networks, and electronic means to commit fraud and appropriate property.The suspects' backgrounds have not been released as the case is under investigation.

This move was made by Tay Ninh Provincial Police in coordination with the Criminal Police Department (Ministry of Public Security) and the Border Guard to check 177 people who were recently detained by Cambodian authorities in Bavet City, Svayrieng Province. These suspects were accused of participating in fraud and property appropriation in cyberspace.

The 36-year-old woman who played the main role, from Soc Trang, admitted to her wrongdoing but said she was also a victim. "The luckiest thing is that I returned to Vietnam in one piece. I know I was wrong, and I hope the law will consider my forced circumstances," she told the police.

The investigation agency determined that in Bavet City, the owner HeYuki (Chinese) was the director, renting the 3rd and 4th floors, building 11, Kim Sa 4 area to establish a company to operate fraud. The group's method was to use the app, sending the link "https://web.sandsking.top/#/" to a website called "Casino Bay Sands".

The company sets up many groups and assigns roles and tasks such as: management, backstage, sales, human resources, logistics... Each group works separately and does not know what other groups do.

According to the assigned scenario, Vietnamese employees were assigned the task of "scraping customers" (entrepreneurs to place bets and invest); "killing customers" (when customers no longer have money, they will close their accounts and erase their traces)... The victims were mainly Vietnamese.

The 36-year-old woman said she was initially tricked into selling fruit in Cambodia, then caught and scammed by phone calls. She refused, so she was sold through two companies.

At the third place, because she didn't want to be beaten anymore, she had to take on a "sales" job, specializing in luring customers to gambling sites. In conversations and text messages with her "prey", she would introduce herself as working for large corporations and businesses, specializing in website design, maintaining casino business projects or online lottery sites in and outside the country... to create trust.

She enticed that "during the day, the system on the Bay Sands Casino app will have an error 3 times, each time for 5 minutes, if you bet at that time, you will surely win a lot of money". Next, the player will be sent a link to enter and see the "app error" sign, but in fact this was set up by the company's "backstage" staff.

After gaining the trust of the customer, they will instruct the "prey" to create an account and deposit money. According to this female suspect, initially when depositing a small amount of money, placing bets, they will win. When the player "gets drunk", deposits more money and places large bets, it will be difficult to withdraw money.

At this point, the "customer scratcher" will give many different reasons to continue to entice the player to deposit more money to have a chance to get the bet back. When the "prey" runs out of money and discovers they have been scammed, they will lock the account and cut off contact.

According to an employee in the network arrested this time, there were days when the gambling account received more than 2 billion VND. In addition, there were so many players who deposited several hundred USD each time that it was impossible to remember.

Through investigating the suspects who played a direct role, the police determined that 5/20 accounts used for fraud had an amount of over 500 billion VND. If all the remaining accounts were counted, the amount of fraud would be up to thousands of billions of VND. The investigation agency worked with 6 victims who had over 35 billion VND stolen.

The Criminal Police Department of Tay Ninh province is coordinating with the Ministry of Public Security to determine the role of each suspect and arrest those involved.