Many people have been tricked into losing money via Zalo, banks are constantly warning

Tram Ho

As we have reflected, in recent times, there have been many cases of crooks performing sophisticated scams through technology applications and social networks to appropriate users’ assets. These scams are not too new, but they hit the trust, the difficulty due to the epidemic and often change, so users are still trapped by crooks.

The most recent is the case of a customer in Ha Dong, Hanoi, whose information was stolen from his phone book by a thief, then set up a fake Zalo nick with the representative image of the customer’s real image (by the subject of obtained on Facebook), then set up a bank account with the name of the account holder matching the name of the victim. In this way, the crooks contacted friends and relatives in the contacts of the victim to borrow money with the amount of hundreds of millions of dong. Only when relatives transfer money a few times, and when they are suspicious, they call the victim to verify that it is a scam.

Faced with this situation, banks have warned their customers to be careful to avoid being scammed and point out the tricks that scammers often use:

1. The crook sets up a Zalo account with the user’s name and image (temporarily called A), and opens an account with the same name as A at the bank.

2. Fraudsters make friends and text friends/relatives in A’s friendlist, present difficulties, ask for a loan, then provide a fake account number with the same name as A to receive money .

3. Due to trusting in the information, zalo image and fake account A, A’s friends/relatives trusted and transferred money.

4. When detected, the crooks immediately block, delete or rename the account.

 Nhiều người bị lừa mất tiền qua Zalo, các ngân hàng liên tục cảnh báo - Ảnh 1.

Photo source: VPBank

In order to ensure safe assets, the bank also recommends that customers be wary of money transfer/payment requests via apps, social networks and need to verify friends/relatives’ information (by phone) or in person) before making the transfer/payment.

The bank recommends that customers ABSOLUTELY NOT provide personal information, identification documents, bank account information to anyone, including people claiming to be police, court officials, the Ministry of Health, …; and DO NOT share this information on social networks.

When having any doubts regarding fraudulent transactions, customers need to CONTACT the nearest police agency immediately and report it to the bank.

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Source : Genk