Lost nearly 200 million VND for applying to be an online collaborator

Recently, many people, mainly women who stay at home, do housework, do not have a stable job, are taking care of small children… because they believe in online (online) recruitment advertisements for collaborators. recording, reading texts, novels… with an income of 200,000 – 500,000 VND/day was trapped with the amount of several tens, even several hundred million VND.

Received a “job”, without salary, lost 200 million dong

Reflecting to a reporter of VOV Electronic Newspaper, Ms. MKA (in Hanoi) said that in mid-June, she could read information on Facebook to find someone to record, read texts, read novels with an income of 200,000 – 500,000 VND. /day, so she submitted an application to a facebook page “Candidates to read stories and novels” belonging to GMC Media Advertising and Communication Co., Ltd., headquartered at 354/114 Phan Van Tri, Ward 11, District Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

During the exchange at messenger, the recruiting unit sent the candidate code and asked Ms. A to make a friend zalo with the Human Resources Department with phone number 0762075598. After a short interview, the consultant asked her to connect you via Zalo, then switch to Telegram group for easy exchange of work.

According to Ms. A., after trying to record a reading, she was informed that she had completed task 1 with an approval score of 90/100.

At job 2, the consultant asked her to place an order to buy any product at the request of the sponsor (MCRIO). Just transfer money to purchase, after 5-10 minutes will be refunded plus 10% commission. If you agree, you can be considered as an official employee of the company

“At job 2, I transferred money to buy a microphone product costing 799,000 (the transfer order was HTG1 and they refunded the commission including 878,900. At the end of job 2, they asked to contact Assistant Phan Phan. Mr. Quan to continue to be considered as a full-time employee with 4 activities in challenge 2 “- Ms. MKA said.

According to Ms. A’s share, because the purchase amount at job 2 was only a few hundred thousand dong, she did not think much of it but transferred the money immediately. Up to the next 4 activities, it is still a “buying” job, but the amount increases gradually, and the amount of commission also increases from 10-20%, so it is easy for players to “give up greed”.

Ms. A. said: “In the second transaction, I transferred 2 million VND to buy goods, 5 minutes later I received 2.2 million VND. However, in the next transaction, after transferring 4 million VND. VND with the content “Job2”, I was notified that the transaction failed. Because I transferred the wrong amount and they asked me to transfer the amount of 4×3=12 million to get the above amount back. Unfortunately, the money was transferred wrong. command and hung on the system, I have forwarded 12 million VND but still did not receive that amount,” said Ms. A.

According to Ms. A’s share, they used confusing words, added work, because the amount of money poured into it was quite a lot, so the mentality of people like her just wanted to quickly finish this job to withdraw money. With no money, she borrowed from relatives around, from 30 to 70 million dong,… and only after transferring them 200 million dong within more than 4 hours with the same trick as above, did KA really shine. conscious.

“When I knew I was cheated, I wanted to end the job, get my money back, then they challenged me. Even when I text them, informing them that I have reported to the police, they are not afraid, and have rude words to me,” said Ms. A.

Many victims are cheated

Not only Ms. A., for many months now, on a Facebook voice recording group, she also shared being tricked with the same trick. The few people are a few million, the more people are tens, even a few hundred million. Their tricks are very sophisticated, they use images of influential people on social status to trick players into participating.

According to Ms. MKA’s share, she was deceived because on their recruitment page, there was a video of Tue Nga – a small girl with a strange face, famous for reviewing books on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. Tue Nga used to be a character participating in the program “Seventh Wish” on VTV3.

When we contacted Tue Nga about this, Tue Nga also said that she was very upset and made a correction on social networking platforms.

“This is how they used their image to scam. They used their image to take advantage of the trust of others for their own profit. There are many people who have messaged me, responding that they have been scammed a lot of money just because they trust me. I’m very upset, and if anyone looks at content like this, you can comment to help me “warn me it’s a scam”. My pictures are only posted on two places: Tue Nga on Tiktok and Tue Nga on Facebook “- Tue Nga said.

Expert warning

Following this issue for a while, cybersecurity expert Ngo Minh Hieu, National Cybersecurity Monitoring Center (Ministry of Information and Communications), said that this is actually a form of fraud to recruit collaborators. members online, only different in content. Instead of tricking recruitment into sales jobs for e-commerce platforms, now scammers switch to recording recordings, reading stories, etc. And how to lure people from Facebook via Zalo and Telegram and money transfer tasks. Buy products, receive commissions are the same.

Social media users, especially women, need to be wary of online job offers that promise high income without requiring experience or skills. Often the bad guys will approach and recommend a simple online job, only asking for a small amount of money to “perform the task” and then they will refund that money with interest.

According to expert Ngo Minh Hieu, initially, the “tasks” can be easy and the scammer will quickly refund the amount of the task performed with rewards to build trust. However, they will then ask the victim to perform “tasks” with a larger amount of money and find excuses such as “collaborators” being slow or making mistakes in the work process, not responding. meet credit rating requirements…

“The scammer will then keep that money and ask the victim to transfer a larger amount to receive the full amount invested. This scam process continues in a cycle, until the victim discovers that he has been cheated or is no longer able to pay. At that time, the bad guy will block all communication and disappear. The means of communication they often use is the Telegram messaging app, which automatically deletes the entire history from both parties after the scam occurs, leaving no evidence and difficult to trace the account. “- said expert Hieu.

Mr. Ngo Minh Hieu warned, scammers often use media and communication channels without leaving personal information or using fake information. This makes it very difficult to determine their identity and location. Scammers often use technology and multinational networks to carry out operations. They can use anonymous servers, proxy services, VPNs, and encryption methods to mask the real IP address and location. This makes tracking and tracing difficult for the investigating agency, especially when the subject is operating abroad.

Communication channels through apps like Telegram can automatically delete the entire message history after a certain period of time. This makes it difficult for investigative agencies to collect evidence and trace the activities of scammers. Since online fraud activities are often multinational in nature, cooperation between investigative agencies and governments of different countries is necessary. However, limited cooperation and information sharing between countries can delay the process of tracing and apprehending fraudsters.

According to expert Hieu, the number of online fraud cases is increasing and investigating agencies often face many different types of crimes. This puts pressure on the investigative agency’s resources and priorities, making it more difficult to investigate and track down fraudsters. And getting the money back is also near impossible. Because, the individuals or groups behind these scams often operate under false identities or use sophisticated techniques to hide their tracks. They may not be easily traced, making them difficult to identify and locate. Not to mention the subject also uses virtual bank accounts, or bank accounts acquired from others – through groups of buying and selling bank accounts on Telegram.