Appearance of fanpage “Bank for the poor” received 1 million for 10 million, ran headlining ads on Facebook: Be careful about losing money!

Recently, on the social network, there is often an advertisement of a page that, if you just look at it, everyone thinks that this is the fanpage of a famous commercial bank. Not only using the name and logo of the bank, this fake fanpage also calls itself “a bank to support the poor” – targeting those who are in financial difficulties and in need of money.

Page with a representative photo of Vietcombank

Exchange 1 million for 10 million?

Based on the name of the fanpage and the identical logo of Vietcombank, this article easily caught the attention of network users. Most notably, the misspelled ad line ‘SERRI NUMBER ERROR 1 MILLION = 10 MILLION’, with a humane message: ‘Helping the poor is our responsibility’.

However, when clicking on the link attached to the post being run headlining on Facebook, users will be redirected to a ‘strange’ website.

The interface of this website is black, sloppy, and does not look like a bank.

The link leads to a page that receives a change of error.

Under the same ad line as on Facebook, still spelled incorrectly: ‘SERRI NUMBER ERROR 1 MILLION = 10 MILLION’, user is required to fill in personal information including name, phone number and address Only deliver, register the amount and type of face value you wish to receive if you wish to ‘exchange money’.

In addition, there is no other information about the ‘service provider’.

Not only that, on the website that the link on this fanpage leads to, when accessing constantly appearing notices about new people participating in the conversion.

These notifications, whether they are real or created by the website owner, the appearance of them are not outside the purpose of creating psychological stimulation for visitors, making them feel secure when many people have successfully transacted. previous public.

Continually notice about the person who just changed money.

With the very vague information mentioned above, it can be affirmed that this fanpage does not represent the bank but is only taking advantage of the bank’s name and brand to entice network users to implement a dark scheme. there.

Many comments said, ‘money error serri’ that this fanpage advertising may be fake money. The impersonation of a bank is a psychological trick that the audience creates to create confidence with people who are light-hearted, or those who are in financial difficulties ‘don’t know where to depend on’.

In this case, once the ‘1 million for 10 million’ exchange was successful, the user violated the law related to ‘regulations on making, storing, transporting and circulating counterfeit money’.

Vietcombank representative confirmed that it was not relevant

Regarding the incident, exchanging with us, a representative of Vietcombank Commercial Joint Stock Bank said that all the information above and related to the fanpage of ‘Vietcombank to support the poor Vietcombank’ are fake, without any Please contact Vietcombank.

Vietcombank recommends that users do not provide any information, do not perform any transactions to avoid being taken advantage of by bad actors.

Vietcombank’s representative added that, besides the aforementioned incident, there have been many other forms of cyber fraud for malicious purposes, such as stealing passwords and personal information of customers. . After grasping the situation, the bank has made recommendations to customers.

According to Article 207 of the 2015 Penal Code amended and supplemented 2017 providing for the crime of making, storing, transporting and circulating counterfeit money:

1. Those who do, store, transport and circulate fake money shall be sentenced to between 3 and 7 years of imprisonment.

2. Committing the crime with counterfeit money with a value of between VND 5,000,000 and under VND 50,000,000, the offenders shall be sentenced to between 5 and 12 years of imprisonment.

3. Committing the crime in case of counterfeit money with a value of VND 50,000,000 or more, the offenders shall be sentenced to between 10 and 20 years of imprisonment or life imprisonment.

4. Those who prepare for this crime shall be sentenced to non-custodial reform for up to 3 years or a prison term of between 1 and 3 years.

5. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between VND 10,000,000 and VND 100,000,000 or confiscate part or all of their properties. ”

– With the act of counterfeiting, the offender may be involved in the whole process of counterfeiting or may be just a part of that process.

– Storing counterfeit money is an act of illegal storage in a home, a person or somewhere (such as a business establishment, a garden, etc.).

– Transporting counterfeit money is the act of transporting fake money from one place to another in contravention of law provisions. Acts of transporting counterfeit money can be carried out in any form such as carrying people, transferring via post, train, plane …

– The act of circulating counterfeit money is the act of buying and selling these objects in any form such as buying and selling in the common sense, exchanging and paying with fake money.

However, posting or selling counterfeit money if giving false information in order to appropriate property of another person may constitute a fraudulent act of appropriating property under Article 174 of the 2015 Criminal Code. amended and supplemented 2017.