A group of 17 women from Thuong Xuan, Trieu Son, and Tho Xuan districts, led by Le Thi Phuong (born in 1985, in Tho Xuan, both in Thanh Hoa province) were recently arrested by Chi Linh City Police (Hai Duong) for fraud and property appropriation.
According to the investigation, from April to November 2023, Phuong rented a house from a resident in Team 4, Tho Lam Commune, Tho Xuan District (Thanh Hoa) and hired other members of the network to work. The job of these members was to pretend to be bank consultants or sales staff, calling customers in need of loans or consulting on buying high-value SH motorbikes.
For customers in need of loans, Phuong will guide customers to apply for loans of 20 - 50 million VND, then use the excuse of asking customers to buy loan insurance and some types of taxes and fees to appropriate this amount of money.
For the form of selling household appliances and functional foods to win motorbikes, after obtaining the information of online buyers and their winning codes, Phuong had her staff call these people to inform them that they had won SH motorbikes. Then, she asked the buyers to pay the money through the bank accounts provided by Phuong. Because of their gullibility, many people were scammed and had their property taken away.
Currently, the Chi Linh City Police Investigation Agency has determined that 13 people in 8 provinces and cities in the country have been scammed by the ring, taking a total of more than 350 million VND. In Chi Linh City, a female victim over 60 years old was scammed by the gang and took more than 50 million VND in the form of winning a SH motorbike.
Chi Linh City Police informed that most of the victims of this network are elderly people who have just started using social networks. When seeing invitations and advertisements on websites, without carefully researching the information, the victims participated or registered for loan packages and online shopping services. Taking advantage of this, the subjects in the network sought to buy and sell, exchange customer information, thereby committing acts of fraud and appropriation of property.
Currently, the Investigation Police Agency of Chi Linh City Police has initiated a case and prosecuted the related subjects.
VAN TU