Many people in Hai Duong fell into the trap of using fake transfer invoices.

Hoang Thi Quynh Mai (born in 1990, permanent resident of group 26, Hoa Hiep Bac ward, Lien Chieu district, Da Nang city) has no job or income.

In mid-June 2023, Mai rented room 15A11, building H1 in Ecorivers urban area (Hai Duong city) to live. Although she had no money or assets, Mai still wanted to buy goods and use other people's services. After buying goods and using services, Mai had the idea of ​​going online to hire someone else to make a fake bank transfer notice (bill) and send it to the seller or service provider so that they would believe that they had paid. Through the internet, Mai contacted a Zalo account user named "Hoa no khong mau" (name and specific address unknown) to hire her to make a fake money transfer bill for 300,000 VND/bill.

Using the above methods and tricks, from July to August 2023, Mai committed 4 frauds to appropriate goods and money from people working in the service industry, business households, and traders in Hai Duong city with a total amount of nearly 260 million VND.

One of the typical cases of Mai's tricks of appropriating goods and money was on July 10, 2023, Mai hired Mr. Nguyen Cong H. to install curtains for the apartment she had just rented, the amount to be paid was more than 19.8 million VND. Mai promised to pay later and Mr. H. agreed. Ten days later, Mai borrowed 700,000 VND from Mr. H. Mai continued to order Mr. H. to install a curtain motor for 10 million VND. On July 29, 2023, Mai had the idea of ​​using deceitful tricks to appropriate Mr. H.'s money, so Mai called and lied, asking Mr. H. to send her bank account number to transfer the money. Through text messages and Zalo phone calls, Mai learned that Mr. H. was working in Hanoi. Mai lied that her husband was handling work in the My Dinh area (Hanoi) but forgot to bring money, so she wanted Mr. H. to bring money for her husband to borrow and would transfer all the debt to him. Mai hired someone using the account "Hoa no khong mau" to fake a bill photo and successfully transferred 46 million VND to Mr. H. so that Mr. H. would believe that Mai had transferred more than the amount due, which was nearly 15.4 million VND. Mai borrowed more than 5.5 million VND from Mr. H. and asked Mr. H. to prepare 21 million VND to bring to Mai's husband. Mr. H. asked Mai if he had not received the money in his account, but Mai lied that she had transferred the money on Saturday and would only receive it on Monday. Mr. H. trusted her and withdrew 21 million VND. At this time, Mai continued to lie to Mr. H. that she did not need to bring money to her husband anymore and asked him to transfer the 21 million VND to her account. Mr. H. trusted her and agreed and asked his wife to transfer the money to Mai. After receiving the money, Mai continued to ask to borrow and Mr. H. transferred 15 million VND. That same evening, Mai hired someone using the account “Hoa no khong mau” to fake a photo of a bill transferring 50 million VND to the account provided by Mr. H., the amount in the bill was 29.4 million VND more than the amount owed to Mr. H. with the aim of asking Mr. H. to transfer the remaining amount. After that, Mai sent this photo to Mr. H. and asked him to transfer back the entire remaining amount.

A few days later, Mr. H. checked his account and saw that he still had not received the money. Mr. H. asked, Mai lied that due to a bank error, all the money transfers were unsuccessful, and the money had been returned to Mai's account. Mai continued to order a fake money transfer bill with the amount of 96 million VND and sent it to Mr. H. Mr. H. continued to ask, but Mai found enough reasons not to pay. Mai used the money she had appropriated from Mr. H. to buy an iPhone 14 Pro Max for nearly 26.5 million VND and spent it all on living expenses and food.

On August 11, 2023, Mr. H. suspected Mai of embezzling money, so he reported it to the police.

Not only did Mai try to steal money from the seller, she also used tricks to steal money from taxi drivers. After taking a few taxi rides with Mr. Nguyen Tat D. in Quang Trung Ward (Hai Duong City), Mai made friends with him via Zalo to conveniently call a taxi and asked for his bank account number to pay. Mai herself went many times and asked Mr. D. to call another taxi to pick up her friend but did not pay. Mai also used tricks to hire someone to use the account "Hoa no khong mau" to fake the money transfer bill. The total amount of money Mai stole from Mr. D. was 4.8 million VND.

The Investigation Police Agency of Hai Duong City Police has decided to prosecute Mai for fraud and property appropriation. At the same time, it is recommended that people do not easily trust people who are new acquaintances and lack trust when installing goods or lending or lending money; when selling goods or providing services, there must be a reasonable form of payment to avoid being taken advantage of by fraudsters and property appropriation.