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Pham Thi Huyen Trang graduated from a university in Hanoi, fluent in Chinese, English and many other languages. Specializing in writing scam scripts, Huyen Trang receives a salary of 200 million VND per month.
Bac Ninh Provincial Police have just dismantled a cross-border online fraud ring impersonating the police, electricity, tax, and education sectors, appropriating nearly 1,000 billion VND and more than 13,000 victims.
According to Bac Ninh Police, to successfully commit the scam, the managers divided the subjects into 3 groups: Cao 1, Cao 2, Cao 3 and assigned specific tasks.
Among them, there are 5 main subjects including: Nguyen Van Manh, 36 years old, in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province; Do Van Nghia, 25 years old, in Luc Nam district, Bac Giang province; Dinh Nhu Quynh, 23 years old, in Thanh Thuy district, Phu Tho province; Nguyen Duc Toan, 32 years old, in An Duong district, Hai Phong and Pham Thi Huyen Trang, 26 years old, in Tien Lang district, Hai Phong city.
This group operates in the Tam Thai Tu area, Ba Vet city, Svay Rieng province (Cambodia) by impersonating ward-level police, district-level police, tax, electricity, and education officials to call victims and ask them to update their citizen identification information, submit online school admission applications, have health check-ups, and declare taxes.
They took over the phone and stole money from the victim's bank account.
The investigation team determined that from May 2024 to present, the subjects have appropriated nearly 1,000 billion VND from more than 13,000 victims nationwide.
Bac Ninh Provincial Police have initially clarified and identified 42 subjects with sufficient grounds to prosecute; and have issued a decision to temporarily detain 38 subjects for fraud and property appropriation.
The police are continuing to investigate and expand the acts showing signs of Money Laundering and Organizing for others to flee and stay abroad illegally and are searching for related subjects.
The police agency requested that anyone who was harmed by the above tricks should immediately contact the Bac Ninh Provincial Police to coordinate the investigation and resolution. Along with that, the authorities requested the related subjects to surrender to enjoy leniency under the law.
Pham Thi Huyen Trang - senior manager in a fraud ring specializing in script writing
One of the reasons why people fall into the trap is the perfect, methodical scam scenarios that were carefully constructed by the above people under the direction of a group of foreigners from Cambodia. The group claims that "these scenarios are very suitable for the real situation, the difficulties in solving the problems that people are facing".
Surprisingly, the person who came up with the scam scripts was Huyen Trang, a former female student from Hai Phong, fluent in many foreign languages and computer skills. The scripts were written very quickly and realistically, making people lose their guard and easily fall into the trap.
Pham Thi Huyen Trang's confession at the police station showed that the script was written with many details that appeal to people's psychology.
According to a video posted on the Bac Ninh Provincial Police portal, Nguyen Van Manh confessed that he went to Cambodia to participate in a fraud organization, appropriating property, and impersonating a police officer. "My role and duty is to check attendance, repair, and replace machinery for employees every day. The bonus is calculated based on the weekly revenue. If the target is met that week, the bonus is 1%. Scratch 1, Scratch 2, Scratch 3 add up and divide by 3," Manh confessed.
Do Van Nghia confessed that Cao 1 pretended to be a ward or commune police officer, asking people to go to the district or county police to update information.
Cao 2 pretended to be district police to guide people to install and access malicious links to install harmful applications.
Scratch 3 combined with Scratch 2 to take money from people and victims.
After installing the malware, the victim's phone will be taken over. Scratch 3 will hack into the victim's phone, hack into the bank and transfer money.
The police have been monitoring for a long time, and have encountered many difficulties when the criminal group operates outside the border, erases traces very quickly and has a huge number of victims. The criminal organization coordinates very well with each other, assigning specific tasks to each person, forming the organization and network.
It is also difficult to collect information about the criminal activities of the subjects before solving the case. They are scattered, the area is very large. In particular, the force participating in solving the case does not know the subjects' faces, while the number of those people is very large.
