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Ha Tinh police presided over and coordinated with Lao police to break up a fraud ring in the Golden Triangle (Bokeo province, Laos), arresting 155 people.
On August 7, the Criminal Police Department, Ha Tinh Provincial Police presided over and coordinated with the Department of Police for Prevention of Human Trafficking Crimes under the Lao Ministry of Public Security; the Criminal Police Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Immigration Management under the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and a number of professional units to dismantle a cross-border fraud ring, arresting 155 people involved.
According to Colonel Pham Thanh Phuong, Deputy Director of Ha Tinh Provincial Police, this is a professional fraud organization operating in cyberspace, managed by foreigners, appropriating the assets of thousands of Vietnamese victims.
With the tactic of “using Vietnamese people to deceive Vietnamese people”, these people lured and enticed Vietnamese people to illegally enter the country through border gates with attractive salaries of 18-30 million VND, then committed acts of property appropriation.
The "links" were assigned to use Facebook accounts without real information, impersonating successful, wealthy, businessmen, but single, regularly posting pictures of partying and traveling, making this virtual account look real to make friends, get to know, flirt and gain trust with people in Vietnam.
The victims they target are single, middle-aged, financially well-off or have many social relationships.
After gaining trust, these people call on their "prey" to invest in hotel business on a "fake" application (or website) called OYO (https://hotel-oyo.cc) to enjoy high commission percentage and profit. From there, they appropriate the money the victim has invested.
After grasping the situation and making careful preparations, in the early morning of August 2, the task force decided to set out.
The workplace of this line is from the 3rd to the 11th floor of the building in the Golden Triangle economic zone. When detecting the authorities, hundreds of scammers fled, destroyed their criminal tools, barricaded themselves in the common room, climbed out onto the balconies to hide or blended in with the people working in the same building.
After more than 4 hours of pursuit, 154 people in this ring were caught.
At the scene, the authorities seized nearly 100 passports, 74 pills of ecstasy, 18,900 yuan, dozens of computers, nearly 500 phones, thousands of unregistered SIM cards, and other tools and documents used to commit fraud.
At Noi Bai airport, the Criminal Police Department also arrested the mastermind Hoang Bich Ngoc (born in 1994, residing in Kien An district, Hai Phong city) while he was on his way to escape back to Vietnam.
The Criminal Police Department of Ha Tinh Provincial Police is continuing to expand the investigation.
Ha Tinh police informed that anyone who is a victim of the above fraud ring should quickly contact and report for coordination in resolving the matter.
