Hacking scams over the phone, the internet: The thrilling retired officer was cheated 500 million

“Living this age but I still do not expect to be tricked by them all the money that the couple accumulated for life. Very painful, dear, humiliating and embarrassed with my wife and children, sometimes I thought about jumping on the bridge ”- Mr. H. tears of tears recounted.

Mr. H. and his wife are retired officials, and 3 children are working away from home. He and his wife depend on each other in an old level 4 house in Hon Gai ward, TP. Ha Long. Mr. H.’s wife had Parkinson’s disease for many years. Mr. H. also suffered from chronic heart disease, many times cured but no results.

In early April 2019, Mr. H. suffered a sudden heart attack and had to go to an emergency hospital. Although his health was not stable, he still had to ask his doctor to leave the hospital early because his wife was ill too, no one cared for. On the evening of April 10, Mr. H. had a heart attack again, when he was instructed by his doctor to treat at home, Mr. H. drank twice the usual dose and two high-dose sleeping pills.

At around 8 am April 11, at the time of waking up in a coma due to the effects of the drug, Mr. H. received a call from the desk, the other party declared himself a cadre of the Ministry of Public Security, in progress. Investigate an economic case with an amount of nearly VND 200 billion. The man said Mr. H. was a focal point related to the case because the arrested subjects declared his name.

Mr. H. repeatedly denied, but the other side insisted on accusing him and threatened to come to his house to arrest him for investigation. He also ordered him to prepare 3 sets of clothes and personal items and said soon after the police would come to the house to read the arrest warrant. According to him, when the audience sensed that he was trembling, they said, “You are a good person so you are entitled to cooperate with the police to avoid arrest and loss of honor.”

When knowing that “prey” was trapped, the subjects immediately launched a trick to persuade Mr. H. to declare deposits at banks. “They read the names of a bunch of banks and asked if I could deposit money. When I read the name of Foreign Trade Bank, I confessed to sending VND 350 million. This is the money of the clan’s ancestors who contributed to the construction of the tomb for their ancestors because I was the chief, ”said Mr. H.

As soon as the phone was terminated, Mr. H. opened a mobile phone to call the Director of Quang Ninh Provincial Police to verify the incident. But due to his blurred vision, he had mistakenly clicked twice on the number of other people. Oddly, when he phoned, the tablet’s stethoscope was still connecting the call to phishing objects. Immediately, the subjects immediately threatened him not to call the police, because of the confidentiality of the case.

Right in the morning, Mr. H. went directly to the bank to transfer VND 350 million into the account with the address in Bac Ninh. After the money transfer, Mr. H. is still waiting for the “Ministry of Public Security” to pay. At 8:00 am on August 12, the subjects called Mr. H. and retrieved his deposit at the Military Bank. They asked him to send the 154 million notes sent at the bank with a promise to return it at 10 am the same day.

Mr. H. once again believed in the news and continued to transfer the money into an account with the address in the city. Mong Cai is provided by the subjects. After sending it, Mr. H. came home waiting to get paid but by noon at 12:00 on the same day. He just searched for the phone number and called the Director of Quang Ninh Police Department. After the presentation, Mr. H. was a new fan of his trick.

Dangerous scam acts

According to the investigation of Tien Phong PV , in Quang Ninh, cases of being tricked by phone like Mr. H. are not few. In Bai Chay Ward, there is also a scam where the victim is a hotel boss. The suspect team called to scare her “just caught the group of 10 people who slept at the hotel last night”. Subjects “have fully accepted and her hotel is the transitional place of the transnational drug trafficking line”.

The hotel owner was also threatened to arrest and forbid anyone to know this because the Ministry of Public Security was secretly investigating. They scrutinize the bank accounts of the subjects and make the beneficiaries transfer VND 6 billion.

Colonel Thai Hong Cong, deputy director of Quang Ninh Provincial Police, said: “We judge this fraud is very dangerous. After a period of investigation, we found that the numbers that phishers used to call victims all had overseas numbers. ”

“The police in Quang Ninh province has issued a lot of warnings about this type of crime. Press agencies have also talked a lot about phone cases and tricks. This is an old trick but there are people tricked. We are cooperating with investigating units to synthesize cases so that the cases will have the earliest results, “Colonel Cong said.

“They read the names of a bunch of banks and asked if I could deposit money. When I read the name of Foreign Trade Bank, I confessed to sending VND 350 million. That is the money of the clan’s ancestors who contributed to the construction of the tomb for their ancestors because I was the chief of the family.

 

Mr. H. said