While doing the "mission" of listening to music online, a woman in Binh Phuoc was scammed out of more than 2 billion VND.

On June 28, the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Binh Phuoc Provincial Police received a petition from Ms. LHT reporting that she was introduced by high-tech criminals to listen to music on an application impersonating Zing mp3, defrauding her of more than 2 billion VND.

According to the complaint, on May 26, 2024, a Telegram social network account named "Hang HD Thuy" sent a friend request and texted about online work at home, no service fee, no deposit, just need to listen to music on the Zingmp3 application, then vote for a singer and take a photo of the vote and send it back to the subject to receive 35,000 VND/voting point. Ms. T. agreed to participate.

Then, this person instructed Ms. T. to join a group on the social network Telegram and vote for the singer to exchange points on a link (fake Zingmp3 application) provided by the subject and receive 100,000 VND.

Next, this person instructed Ms. T. to use a Telegram account to make friends with an "expert" named Nguyen Duy Hai to be guided to do the voting task with a deposit of 200,000 VND and receive 80,000 VND/voting point. After completing all the tasks, Ms. T. will be transferred back the deposit she paid.

On June 12, Ms. T. was informed by the subject to join the “Zingmp3 Voting Group” and instructed her to sign a commitment contract to receive a profit of 40-50%. Next, Ms. T. participated in the task “Vote 1” and went to the link (sent by the subject on the group) to vote for singer MT. To get 50 voting points, Ms. T. had to pay a deposit of 5 million VND (this amount the subject said would be returned after completing the task).

Because she wanted to enjoy more profits, Ms. T. continuously participated in tasks 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 with increasingly higher payments and bonus points gradually increasing to 850 points, equivalent to 127 million VND. Ms. T. was drawn in and continuously received instructions from the "experts" in the group. Due to greed, she continuously transferred money 19 times with an amount of more than 2.3 billion VND to the account provided by the subject.

When Ms. T. wanted to withdraw the principal and interest, the subjects gave many reasons to refuse to return the money deposited into the system. At this time, suspecting that she had been scammed out of more than 2.3 billion VND by high-tech criminals, Ms. T. went to the police to report.

The Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Binh Phuoc Provincial Police recommends that people raise their awareness of the above fraudulent appropriation of property. In case of suspicion of fraudulent appropriation of property, promptly notify the nearest police agency or the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention at the phone number: 069.3460505 or fanpage https://www.facebook.com/anninhmangbinhphuoc for timely prevention and guidance on how to handle it.