Breaking up a transnational fraud ring, appropriating thousands of billions of dong

This is a criminal group that uses high technology to commit fraud by recruiting collaborators to work online on the Internet, then enticing them to transfer money to bank accounts to place orders on fake e-commerce platforms such as Shopee, Lazada...

Two subjects Sang and Thinh were arrested by the police. Photo: CA

Among the 23 subjects arrested by the police, through investigation, the ringleaders in Vietnam were Nguyen Hoang Sang (born in 2001) and Le Truong Thinh (born in 1997), both from Tay Ninh.

In addition to fraudulently recruiting collaborators online, this group regularly creates accounts on the Corona website to bet on "over/under" to receive commissions.

Previously, in early January 2023, through professional measures, the police agency determined that Sang, Thinh and a group of subjects colluded with "Lun" and "Trang" (unknown identity, Chinese) to establish a disguised company, headquartered abroad, to use cyberspace to defraud and appropriate property of many Vietnamese citizens.

Accordingly, "Lùn" and "Trang" recruited nearly 100 Vietnamese people and sent them to Cambodia to work through social networking sites, posting articles with content promising high salaries and attractive benefits to recruit or encourage employees to attract more friends and relatives to work in Cambodia.

Then, "Dwarf" and "White" gave the subjects commissions on the total amount of money they had swindled and appropriated from the victims.

Sang and Thinh's role was to directly assign tasks to subjects to call and text via Facebook to entice and entice victims to follow and like (also known as "heart") on the TikTok application and Facebook.

The subjects instruct the victims to contact the Telegram application to meet the "experts" who trick them into transferring money to their bank accounts. Once the victims "fall into the trap" and transfer money, they will be further trapped by the profits they offer.

Once the amount reaches a certain amount, the scammers block contact, delete accounts and take the victim's money.

With the above sophisticated methods and tricks, combined with the victims' greed or desire to get rich quickly, these subjects have defrauded thousands of Vietnamese people, appropriating an estimated amount of up to thousands of billions of VND.

According to Vietnamnet