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Cam Pha police arrested a group of scammers who swindled nearly 106 billion VND, using tricks to erase traces of the fraudulent money flow.

PV (synthesis) January 26, 2025 09:47

Cam Pha police have arrested a group of scammers who used sophisticated tricks to erase traces of money. The total amount of money the group initially scammed was about 105 billion 999 million VND.

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The group of suspects were arrested with evidence.

The Investigation Police Agency of Cam Pha City Police (Quang Ninh) informed that the unit has just decided to detain people in emergency cases and temporarily detain 10 subjects in a fraud ring to appropriate property on the internet.

Notably, the activities of this group of subjects are specialized to handle and erase traces of the money that the fraudulent organization appropriated, amounting to nearly 106 billion VND.

Through the work of grasping the situation in the area, since mid-January, Cam Pha City Police discovered at house number 855, Dang Chau Tue Street, Group 4, Zone 10B, Quang Hanh Ward, Cam Pha City, a group of subjects appeared with signs of fraudulent activities to appropriate property on the internet.

The unit organized an inspection and identified a group of 10 people who were receiving and transferring money through bank accounts, along with tools and evidence including 1 laptop and 47 used mobile phones.

The group of subjects includes: Nguyen Duc Linh (born in 1983, residing in Quang Hanh ward, Cam Pha city) was directed by another subject living abroad to rent a house and hire 7 other subjects from Ha Long city, Cam Pha (Quang Ninh), Nam Sach district (Hai Duong) to live and work together and 2 subjects, Nguyen Quang Truong and Nguyen Duc Quan from Hanoi city, came to direct, control and operate the activities of this group of subjects.

This group of subjects is responsible for opening many accounts at many banks. Every day, the subjects use biometric scanning to carry out transactions to transfer money transferred by the fraudulent organization, disperse it into different accounts abroad to appropriate and hide the money, causing difficulties and hindering the activities of the authorities when discovered.

This group of subjects used a familiar method of calling people, pretending to be police officers, informing them that they were being investigated in a case that the subjects had fabricated. Then they asked people to transfer money to the accounts the subjects had set up to appropriate the money.

Initially, it was determined that the above subjects had made thousands of transactions transferring and receiving money from scams of many victims nationwide. The total initial transaction amount was estimated at about 105 billion 999 million VND.

The investigation determined that these subjects colluded with many other subjects abroad. The group had specific assignments for leaders, technicians, liaisons, and biometric scanning subjects to transfer money.

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Cam Pha police arrested a group of scammers who swindled nearly 106 billion VND, using tricks to erase traces of the fraudulent money flow.