Scam eating hot events

The bad guys are taking full advantage of the attention-grabbing social events to “bait” people to “fall into the net”.

Non-stop fee-based scam

When the non-stop toll collection was “hot”, Mr. T. (Thu Duc City, HCMC) was informed by a caller that his citizen ID had been used to register multiple accounts, so he needed to be verified. “It’s true that I just registered to open a non-stop fee-for-service account, so I didn’t hesitate to answer.” The other end of the line, claiming to be a police agency, said that through the inspection, he discovered that Mr. T’s information not only duplicated many accounts but was also related to a “criminal” drug trafficking case, appropriating tens of billions of billions of dollars in assets. copper. After learning that Mr. T. was in Ho Chi Minh City, the “investigative agency” asked him to go to Hanoi immediately.

While not knowing what to do, Mr. T said that the other end of the line said he would support remote verification by proving that the personal information is the owner and the money in the bank account is clean. “At first, I agreed to do it, but when I heard the request to provide the password to log in to the electronic bank account, I woke up. After a while of questioning, they actively turned off the phone,” said Mr. T. report.

Still losing billions

Mr. D. (Go Vap district) was not as alert and lucky as Mr. T, so he lost more than 1.8 billion VND. According to District 12 Police (where Mr. D works), he received a call informing that his phone number would be locked after 2 hours because it was related to a money-laundering and drug-trafficking line. Mr. D. was instructed to meet the investigator and was asked to go to the police station in Da Nang for verification.

When Mr. D. said that while in Ho Chi Minh City, the “police agency” facilitated him to work remotely. After that, there were requests for account login information along with threats.

After a few days of following the instructions, Mr. was robbed of more than 1.8 billion dong, both saved and borrowed.

Recently, Techcombank upgraded the system as well as converted the software on smartphones, making it difficult for users to perform transactions at many times. Immediately, a message impersonating Techcombank was sent: “Your account has opened a global financial service, the monthly service fee is 2,000,000 VND, it will be deducted in 2 hours. If not you open the service. service, please click on techcombank.vn-th.xyz to cancel”.

“I was startled because it’s true that recently many of my transactions have either been suspended or took a very long time. So I quickly followed the link in the message and followed to check my account,” Ms. G said. (District 11) recounted the story of being cheated of 10 million VND at the beginning of August.

Meanwhile, the fact that MoMo e-wallet application regularly has promotions is also taken advantage of by bad guys. Recently, Ms. Vu Huynh (District 1) suddenly received an email from the “sender” named MOMO wallet (email address momo.vuihe5@gmail.com) with the content of giving 1,999,000 VND.

The email contains complete and completely accurate personal information of Ms. Huynh including: full name, phone number, address. To receive the money, Ms. Huynh entered both her login and password into the website, but it didn’t look right so she stopped. “Just one more step, I would have lost a lot of money,” Huynh shared.

Scams are rampant

Regarding the above scam, MoMo e-wallet said that official emails from MoMo always use the email extension @momo.vn or @mservice.com.vn. Users should ignore if they receive emails with content giving money, giving gifts and absolutely do not click on the links attached …

With the Techcombank message impersonation scam, this bank affirmed that “absolutely do not ask customers to provide PASSWORD, OTP via links on SMS”.

According to statistics from the National Cyber ​​Security Monitoring Center (NCSC), the Ministry of Information and Communications, there are currently many cases of frauds impersonating banks’ websites, e-commerce sites, etc. websites Shopee, Sendo, Tiki, Lazada; Techcombank, Vietcombank, BIDV, MB; BigC supermarket… People should be careful to avoid being scammed.