Warning about impersonating the Ministry of Public Security's electronic information portal to commit fraud

According to the Ministry of Public Security, in recent days, many information pages have appeared impersonating the Ministry of Public Security's Electronic Information Portal to provide information, posting many videos and articles with content warning about methods and tricks of fraudulent appropriation of property; at the same time, inserting advertisements about services, such as "receiving documents," "support to recover suspended money," "recovering fraudulent money"... with a commitment to only collect money after people have recovered the fraudulent money.

This is one of the fraudulent acts aimed at approaching people who are victims of fraud, taking advantage of their regret for money and need to get back lost property to continue to commit fraud and appropriate property against them.

The Ministry of Public Security affirmed that currently, the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security only provides official information on the internet through two channels: the Ministry of Public Security's electronic information portal (https://mps.gov.vn/ and https://bocongan.gov.vn/); the Ministry of Public Security's information page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mps.gov?mibextid=LQQJ4d).

Previously, in April, the Ministry of Public Security also issued a warning about the tricks of impersonating the Ministry of Public Security, law firms, and law offices to support "recovering suspended capital" and "reclaiming fraudulent money."

According to the Ministry of Public Security, the modus operandi of the subjects is to set up accounts, fanpages, and websites on cyberspace impersonating units of the Ministry of Public Security, law firms, and law offices to advertise services such as: "receiving documents", "supporting in recovering suspended money", "recovering fraudulent money", "recovering suspended money on e-commerce platforms", "recovering suspended money without deposit..." with the commitment to only collect money after people have recovered their fraudulent money.

The subjects often use images and information of police units, law firms, law offices, etc. and post many videos and articles with content warning about methods and tricks of property fraud; cut and paste statements of some lawyers and police officers; post images of law firms' activities and content authorized by the Ministry of Public Security and the Procuracy to "recover suspended capital," "reclaim scammed money" to create trust for the people.

At the same time, they use advertising features so that these videos and articles often appear when people access social networks to attract followers and interactions.

They even use many fake accounts to comment and interact with articles; regularly comment on articles on reputable information sites with a large number of interested people interacting to increase trust and attract people's attention about getting their money back.

When people proactively contact, the subjects will ask people to provide personal information and information about the scam; install and download other applications, such as Zalo, Telegram... for convenient contact and ask people to transfer money to complete procedures and documents.

They will even use photo and text editing software to create fake documents to make people believe that their files have been received and processed.

Then, they will use many excuses, such as needing more money for the application to be approved, missing information, or system errors, to ask people to continue transferring larger amounts of money in order to commit property appropriation.