Taking advantage of compassion in the Covid-19 epidemic, high-tech criminals spoofed ViettelPay to cheat

The current situation of social isolation makes the demand for social networks soar, a dozen times higher than the pre-epidemic period. And high-tech criminals also took this opportunity to roll out countless forms of cyber fraud in recent years. Recently, the VTV24 newsletter said the hotline of this program received a lot of feedback from people including victims of fake message on the website of ViettelPay to commit fraud.

Access to the link people will find very similar to the interface of ViettelPay, the site requires them to login information, date of birth, phone number, OTP code. However, with great caution, many people have called the switchboard of the mobile payment application of Viettel Group and learned that the website is completely fake.

Phishing messages ViettelPay.

A representative of the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-tech Crime Prevention, Hanoi Police Department stated that this is an organized fraud group specialized in creating fake messages, fake websites similar to talented organizations. The main purpose is to steal personal information, bank account information to make transfers, withdraw money, register for online loans.

The first similarity is warned by the Hanoi Police Department is the domain name. The object will simulate only a few small letters or dots on that domain. The second similarity is the same in the content of the website. By pretending to be very similar to the official website of a financial institution, the criminal group will trick them into logging in personal information such as phone numbers, bank accounts, after receiving the bank information, the opponents The banker will perform money transfers to appropriate the property.

Also according to the representative of Hanoi Police Department, in a VTV interview, Hanoi Police Department PA05 coordinated with related units to remove hundreds of websites and fan pages of financial institutions to appropriate property. . The Room PA05 also warns people to be cautious when providing personal information and online accounts and recommends that people who are victims of the above frauds provide information to the police for coordination. .

In late February 2020, Vietcombank also warned users about fraudulent electronic banking services through fake websites.

Vietcombank said that recently, on the Internet, there have been many fake websites of Vietcombank such as vietcombankwubank.weebly.com; vietcombankvnk.weebly.com; vietcombank-dv-nhanh.weebly.com; ngan-hang-vcb-online-247-nhan-tien-quoc-te.weebly.com…

Not only Vietcombank or BIDV have to warn about the status of fake websites of their bank websites, but also some other commercial banks also have a headache about this issue.