Thai Hoa Commune Police promptly prevented people from transferring 180 million VND to a scammer.

Notably, the scammer used a fake chip-embedded Citizen Identification Card (CCCD) image and combined the information of a citizen residing in the same district as the victim to create trust.

Due to the need to export labor to earn more income to stabilize his life, recently, Mr. Nguyen Tuan Kiet (born in 1970, residing in Hung Long commune, Ninh Giang district, Hai Duong province) went to the Fanpage "Journey to Australia - Australian labor jobs" on Facebook to find information and was consulted and introduced online by a labor export company to Australia headquartered in Ba Dinh (Hanoi). After listening to the consultation, Mr. Kiet agreed to sign a labor export contract with the above company.

The company's staff asked Mr. Kiet to pay 180 million VND to complete the labor export procedures. When Mr. Kiet asked the consultant to provide the CCCD card information of the person collecting the money, the company sent him a photo of the CCCD card number 030189004780 with the name Le Thi Thu Van, born on March 21, 1989, hometown: Binh Xuyen, Binh Giang, Hai Duong, permanent residence: Thai Hoa, Binh Giang, Hai Duong, issued on May 10, 2021, signed by the Director of the Department of Administrative Police for Social Order, Nguyen Quoc Hung.

After saving up for a long time to get 180 million VND to go abroad to work, before transferring money to a person named Le Thi Thu Van, on the afternoon of December 28, 2023, Mr. Kiet went to Thai Hoa Commune Police, Binh Giang District to verify information about this person. Thai Hoa Commune Police officers quickly verified and informed Mr. Kiet that there was no one in the commune with the name and address as Mr. Kiet provided and the CCCD card that Mr. Kiet received was fake. Thai Hoa Commune Police asked Mr. Kiet not to transfer money to the person impersonating an employee of the above-mentioned labor export company. Thai Hoa Commune Police also informed Mr. Kiet about the modus operandi of high-tech criminals who defraud and appropriate property in cyberspace. Thanks to that, Mr. Nguyen Tuan Kiet was lucky not to lose 180 million VND unjustly.

Notably, in Mr. Kiet's case, the scammers used quite sophisticated tricks. Knowing that Mr. Kiet lived in Binh Giang district, the scammers found a photo of the ID card of a person with a household registration in this district, only changing the full name and date of birth, the remaining information on the ID card was that of a citizen residing in Thai Hoa commune, Binh Giang district to create trust with the victim. The fake ID image was cut and pasted by the online scammers with personal information of another person with an address in Thai Hoa commune.

Fraudulent appropriation of property through the guise of labor export is not new, however, the methods of the subjects are increasingly sophisticated. Hai Duong Provincial Police recommend that people be vigilant when making money transfer transactions via social networks. People need to research, check and verify the partner's information carefully before transferring money. If they need support, they can ask the nearest police force of the commune, ward or town to help verify, to avoid being taken advantage of by scammers, falling into traps and losing money unjustly.