By claiming to have an application that helps track and read other people's messages on social networks, two subjects in Ha Tinh have defrauded many people of hundreds of millions of dong and have just been prosecuted by Hai Duong City Police.
The Investigation Police Agency of Hai Duong City Police has just issued a decision to prosecute two suspects Nguyen Quang Huy and Nguyen Van Dung (both born in 2004, both residing in Son Ham commune, Huong Son district, Ha Tinh province) for fraud and property appropriation.
On August 19, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Hai Duong Provincial Police received a complaint from Mr. D.CH (in Cam Thuong Ward, Hai Duong City). According to the complaint, due to the need to use the service of monitoring and secretly reading other people's messages on social networks, on August 13, when accessing Facebook, seeing the group "Software to monitor messages, locate Zalo, Facebook, Viber" posting an advertisement providing this service, Mr. H contacted the account "Thuong media" for instructions as posted in the advertisement.
This account instructed Mr. H. to send the account to be monitored, informed the price of each service package (monitoring software) and provided the MSB bank account number for Mr. H to transfer money. Trusting him, on August 13 and 14, Mr. H transferred money to the account twice, totaling 2.5 million VND. After receiving the money, the subject blocked all contact with Mr. H. Suspecting that he had been scammed and had his property taken, Mr. H filed a complaint with the police.
The Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department conducted an initial verification. It was determined that from February 2023 to August 19, 2024, Nguyen Quang Huy and Nguyen Van Dung discussed and agreed to use multiple accounts and groups to post false information on Facebook to advertise services to monitor, supervise, and read messages on other people's social media accounts. They contacted customers via Zalo, used bank accounts (not in their own name) to gain trust from others, transferred deposits, and then appropriated them.
Huy and Dung confessed to having defrauded and appropriated money from many people in many localities with a total amount of about 100 million VND, of which, on August 13 and 14, 2024, they defrauded and appropriated 2.5 million VND from Mr. H. Huy and Dung are cousins, knowledgeable about information technology but do not have stable jobs.
Pursuant to the provisions of law, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention has transferred information about the crime along with related documents to the Investigation Police Agency of Hai Duong City Police for handling according to its authority.
Currently, the Investigation Police Agency of Hai Duong City Police continues to investigate to handle the subjects according to the provisions of law.
PHUONG THUY