Hundreds of people fall into the trap of "going to Korea to work with high salary"

On January 21, Phuong, 43 years old, Korean nationality, was temporarily detained by Hau Giang Provincial Police to investigate the act of fraud and property appropriation.

Phuong is from Ca Mau, has a husband and lives in Korea as a farmer and job broker. In 2022, Phuong often visited her hometown and went to Hau Giang to announce that she needed to recruit people to go to Korea for seasonal work, with a salary of 40-50 million VND per month.

She hires consultants, receives applications and money from workers in need at a minimum cost of 35 million VND per case.

Phuong then gave many reasons to collect tens of millions of dong in additional fees for each application but did not send them to Korea to work. Suspecting that Phuong had cheated them, many people went to the police to report him.

Initially, the police determined that from 2022 to present, Phuong had defrauded 111 people who wanted to go to Korea to work, with a total amount of money embezzled of more than 10.5 billion VND.

Hau Giang Provincial Police called on Phuong's other victims to come forward and cooperate with the investigation.