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4 people in Quang Ngai were robbed of more than 6 billion VND when they "fell into the trap" of scammers using fake brands and e-commerce platforms advertising gifts.
On October 26, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention, Quang Ngai Provincial Police, said that within 2 weeks in mid-October, the unit received reports from 4 people about being scammed out of money by people impersonating brands and major e-commerce platforms, totaling more than 6 billion VND.
4 people in Quang Ngai "fell into the trap" of counterfeiters of brands and e-commerce platforms with advertising tricks of giving gifts and recruiting collaborators
Fraudsters create fake social media accounts of brands and major e-commerce platforms such as Dien May Xanh, Lazada, Shopee... They continuously run ads on platforms to find victims with very attractive content such as: Send messages to receive free gifts, recruit collaborators to review products to earn money...
To gain the trust of the victims, they forged official documents from state management agencies approving customer appreciation events, thereby enticing the victims to send messages to receive free gifts. After the victims agreed to participate, they asked them to download the application and join the Telegram group.
Here, to strengthen trust, 4-5 scammers pretend to be group members, receive tasks from the group leader to create orders, successfully transfer money and send it to the group leader, then receive the principal, commission, and notify that the money has been withdrawn to their account.
More sophisticatedly, they provide transfer information with account holder names that are difficult to identify such as: "Dien May Xanh", "DMX", "DIEN MAY XANH DTPT JSC"...
Next, the scammers assigned the task of closing the first order with a low value. Just 3-5 minutes after closing the order and successfully transferring money to the provided account number, the victim received the principal and commission as promised.
From the third task onwards, the scammers make many excuses, asking the victims to perform the next tasks with orders worth tens or hundreds of millions of dong to receive the principal and commission.
To gain the trust of the victims, the scammers forged official documents from state management agencies approving the organization of customer appreciation events.
When the victim is no longer able to raise capital and discovers that he has been scammed, the impersonators immediately cut off contact and take all the money.
Among the four victims mentioned above, Ms. NTH (36 years old, residing in Ly Son district) was scammed of more than 3 billion VND after participating in the "program to send messages to receive free gifts" of the Facebook account "Dien may Xanh base 1".
According to VTC News