There is a proliferation of fabricated spam sites slandering the Vietnamese women's team, impersonating coach Park Hang Seo to commit fraud.

During the days when the Vietnamese women's team competed at the World Cup, social media appeared with the character "journalist Long Tran" (or referred to by several other "variants" such as Long Tran, Tran Long, Binh Long). Information about this character is very vague, with no source verifying his identity or place of work.

The source of the spread of distorted and fabricated information is Facebook pages with the names of famous players or football teams. The content that is spread is often shocking comments (often opinions that go against the majority's views, or use offensive language) to attract interactions. The common point of these posts is that they often include links to "junk" pages, with foreign domain names, or character clusters, or uncommon extensions (.app, .xyz).

Not stopping there, after creating the characters of "journalist" and "expert", the websites fabricated statements in response from real people. For example, someone used a photo of coach Mai Duc Chung and some players of the Vietnamese women's team, adding statements attacking the previously fabricated opinion. The story was thus spread even more widely. Many football fans and social media users shared it to discuss and express their opinions further.

Meanwhile, the members of the Vietnamese women's team were completely unaware of this information. It was not until they finished their mission and returned home, had time to rest and went online that they discovered their images were associated with fabricated statements floating around the internet. Some players insisted that they had not made such statements and felt worried about being impersonated and fabricated by bad people.

The above cases are spreading fake news to attract interactions and increase access. At a higher level, bad guys even impersonate individuals and organizations to commit fraud. The community football center of coach Park Hang Seo has just opened for a short time and there are already impersonators.

Taking advantage of the fact that the center had not yet requested verification of its Facebook page, scammers created other pages with similar names, using the "owner's" image and running ads to attract customers. To increase persuasiveness, some fake pages even used the logo of the PVF Football Center and set an email address with the word "bocongan".

Besides the story of the Vietnamese women's team, the online community was stirred up by the imaginary argument between Que Ngoc Hai, Nguyen Cong Phuong and... Miss Y Nhi, even though in reality they had no contact with each other on social networks and media.

Parents interested in the program and wanting to sign their children up for soccer are put in a Telegram group, where they are asked to complete tasks or pay tuition fees that can run into the hundreds of millions of dong.

The center's management and staff only discovered the impersonation when some parents suspected the information in the scam group and went to the real address to verify. There were cases where parents accidentally paid a fee of several million VND in advance.

According to VTC