Hai Phong arrests a group of scammers who appropriated money from 1,100 people through online money making

The Investigation Police Agency of Hai Phong City Police has just initiated a case, prosecuted the accused, and temporarily detained 5 suspects to investigate the crime of fraud and property appropriation, as prescribed in Clause 4, Article 174 of the Penal Code.

The defendants include: Nguyen Van Hung, Tran Van Quan, Le Ngoc Son, Phan Huy The, Nguyen Quang Thanh.

Initial investigation results determined that from November 2024 to January 2025, this group of suspects committed fraud, appropriating a total of over 6 billion VND from more than 1,100 victims.

Accordingly, in mid-2023, a group of 5 defendants went to Cambodia to rent an office and set up a group to scam Vietnamese people by performing tasks on a fake Lazada application.

Their method of operation is to use the social network Facebook to post advertisements, enticing people to participate in light work with high salaries, and by confirming orders on an e-commerce site (with an interface similar to Lazada) they will receive commissions.

When someone is interested in joining, they use a Telegram account to contact and instruct the participant to create an account on the page https://lazada.me.uk/login.ph to log in.

They then instruct participants to select products, add them to their shopping carts, and pay for the products to the bank account of the requested store. Upon completion of the requirements, participants will be paid back the transferred amount along with a commission of 10 - 25%.

Initially, with small tasks, they let participants withdraw money to their accounts successfully to create trust. Then, these people invite them to participate in orders of larger value but do not allow them to withdraw money, but ask participants to continue transferring money to make orders of higher value and appropriate that money.

According to local authorities, online fraud has become a global problem, with the number of cases increasing rapidly each year.

In Hai Phong City, in 2024, the Investigation Police Agency of Hai Phong City Police received many denunciations from the people and prosecuted many cases of fraud and property appropriation for investigation. However, most of the cases could not find the perpetrators.

Currently, the Hai Phong City Police Investigation Agency is continuing to investigate and expand the case.