A woman in Thanh Tung commune almost lost 58 million VND because of a scam call.

Recently, staff of the People's Credit Fund of Thanh Tung commune (Thanh Mien) received a request from Ms. Nguyen Thi Vinh (born in 1977, in La Xa village, Thanh Tung commune) to withdraw 58 million VND and transfer the money to another account.

Seeing Ms. Vinh showing haste, asking to transfer money first and then withdraw the deposit, the staff of Thanh Tung Commune People's Credit Fund became suspicious and asked to temporarily stop the transaction to report to the leaders.

After discussing with Ms. Vinh and requesting the Thanh Tung Commune Police to coordinate the inspection, the leaders of the Thanh Tung Commune People's Credit Fund instructed Ms. Vinh to temporarily suspend the transaction procedure for verification. After checking the information of the related person and receiving explanations from the Commune Police and Credit Fund officers, Ms. Vinh determined that she had been deceived by the subjects to appropriate her property. Ms. Vinh immediately stopped transferring money to the subjects.

According to Ms. Vinh, at around 7:00 a.m. on January 22, she received a phone call from a woman with a southern accent. This woman said that in the package that Ms. Vinh asked her daughter living in Czechoslovakia to send back, there were dollars in it, and that in order to receive the package, Ms. Vinh had to transfer 58 million VND to this person.

Because Ms. Vinh has a daughter living in Czechoslovakia, her daughter also often sends cosmetics, household goods, etc. back home, so when she received the above call, Ms. Vinh did not suspect anything and went straight to the Thanh Tung Commune People's Credit Fund to withdraw and transfer money.