"Female monster" scammed more than 700 million VND and then "burned" it all on the game

Defendant To Thi Van in court

On the morning of July 13, the People's Court of Hai Duong province held the first instance trial of To Thi Van (born in 1984, residing in Dray Bhang commune, Cu Kuin district, Dak Lak) for fraud and property appropriation.

According to the indictment, in August 2022, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Trieu (born in 1988, residing in Thuc Khang commune, Binh Giang), Director of Duyen Trieu Gold and Silver Company Limited, hired Van as an accountant, but the two parties did not sign a labor contract.

Because the company had not registered a bank account, Van asked to help Mr. Trieu go to the bank to open a company account, with the purpose of knowing information about this account and adding his own information to the account registration form to take control, thereby appropriating money in the account.

On September 16, 2022, Van and Mr. Trieu went to the bank to open an account for the company, the account holder was Mr. Nguyen Quoc Trieu. When opening a bank account, Van registered her phone number and email to receive a security code and receive a statement via email address.

After completing the account registration, Van asked Mr. Trieu to provide the password to log in to the banking service and take control of the account. Because Mr. Trieu needed to borrow money from the bank, Van told Mr. Trieu to deposit money into the account to create a balance change and prove his financial ability when applying for a consumer loan.
Trusting Van, from September 16 to October 24, 2022, Mr. Trieu and his wife deposited money into the bank account of Duyen Trieu Gold and Silver Company Limited 7 times with a total of nearly 600 million VND.

After Mr. Trieu and his wife transferred money to the above account, Van transferred 600 million VND to Van's account. To avoid suspicion, Van said she needed to transfer money from the company's account to Mr. Trieu's wife's account to create a change in the balance, so Van transferred 120 million VND to Mr. Trieu's wife's bank account.

Also during that time, through social networks, Van learned that Mr. Quach Phuong Nam (born in 1981, residing in Ke Sat town, Binh Giang) wanted to establish a company, so in mid-October 2022, Van guided Mr. Nam through the procedures and was granted a business registration certificate. On October 19, 2022, Van and Mr. Nam went to the bank to open a digital account in the company's name and tricked Mr. Nam with the same trick as with Mr. Trieu. Mr. Nam deposited money into the company's account twice with a total amount of 220 million VND. When receiving a notification from the bank on the phone about the balance change, Van transferred more than 239 million VND from the company's bank account to Van's bank account and appropriated it.

The total amount of money Van appropriated from Mr. Trieu and his wife and Mr. Nam's wife was more than 700 million VND, which Van deposited into an online gambling account and lost all of it.

On November 1, 2022, Van surrendered to the Investigation Police Agency of Binh Giang District Police.

Van has been to prison twice for property abuse and fraud.

The jury sentenced To Thi Van to 13 years in prison for property appropriation and ordered her to compensate the victims for the misappropriated amount.

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