Hai Duong police warn of the trick of impersonating shippers to defraud and appropriate property

According to the provincial police, recently in the province and the whole country, a new scam has been emerging, impersonating shippers to steal people's money.

The main trick of the scammers is to call people and pretend to be delivery staff, informing them that there is an order to be delivered, and requesting a money transfer to pay.

When the people successfully transferred money, the subjects immediately informed that due to a mistake, the above account number was the shipper membership card registration number. When transferring money there, the center will activate the membership package, automatically deducting 3.5 million VND from the account every month.

Along with that, the subjects sent a link to a Facebook page and a fake phone number of the shipping center for people to contact to cancel their membership registration. After that, the subject impersonating the shipper continuously called people to urge them to click on the above link to send a message to cancel their registration and threatened that if they did not cancel their account, money would be deducted.

Immediately, the department called "savings delivery" called to instruct people to cancel their membership by converting their personal bank account to a business account. The way to do this is to log in to the banking application from the link provided by the subject, enter the verification code (including a 6-digit number) in the transfer amount section, hold the transfer button for 3 seconds, then press transfer. In fact, this action is equivalent to transferring money normally.

With the above tricks, many people in the province have been scammed, some people lost hundreds of millions of dong.

The provincial police requested police units to advise Party committees and authorities at all levels to mobilize departments, branches and organizations to continue to strengthen propaganda so that people can raise their vigilance and not be taken advantage of by criminals.

Previously, Hai Duong Newspaper also had an article "Almost got scammed and had my bank account taken over" warning about this.

To avoid this scam, people should not accept any orders that they did not order, do not transfer money or pay for orders that do not have a clear photo of the shipping code, recipient information, and absolutely do not click on any links sent by strangers. In particular, when faced with unknown or unclear information, people should absolutely not interact on the internet or follow the requests of the subjects.