While on a mission to receive "commissions" online, a woman was scammed out of nearly 5.7 billion VND.

Initial investigation results show that the victim who was robbed of nearly 5.7 billion VND by this online fraud ring is Ms. BTD (44 years old, residing in Lang Son city, Lang Son province). While accessing Facebook, Ms. D participated in performing tasks according to the instructions of an account named "Yody gift 07" advertising with the promise of receiving a high "commission" reward.

Using sophisticated fraud methods, the subjects lured Ms. BTD to perform tasks and receive a reward of VND 120,000. After that, the group offered "welfare gifts" with larger rewards, causing Ms. D. to transfer a large amount of money to 6 bank accounts provided by the subjects to receive the tasks.

After many times of not being "rewarded", the subjects continued to scam the victim into transferring money with the excuse of needing to "upgrade the account" or "doing more tasks" so as not to return the money Ms. D. had transferred into their account. Thus, the victim transferred a total amount of nearly 5.7 billion VND without being able to withdraw the amount deposited and the bonus promised by the subjects.

During the investigation, the police determined that Son and Tuan colluded to commit fraud and property appropriation via cyberspace. Tuan worked as an interpreter for a company specializing in organizing gambling and fraud and property appropriation of Vietnamese people via the Internet, headquartered abroad.

When the company wanted to buy bank accounts from Vietnamese people, Tuan contacted Son to hire him to open a bank account, then sell it back to the company to serve the fraud activities. These two subjects were identified as two "links" related to the online fraud line on a transnational scale, involving both the subject and the foreign contact. Son rented the account number to Tuan to receive the money from the victims. Then, he withdrew and divided it among himself.

The case is being further investigated and expanded by Lang Son Provincial Police according to regulations.