Warning new scam tricks: “Online dating”!

Recently, the social network appeared “Online dating service”. However, in order to “date them”, the victim has to do many tasks.

Ho Chi Minh City Police information, in recent times, the situation of fraud and appropriation of property in the city is very complicated, there are many new methods and tricks that cause great damage to property, physical and mental health of the people and seriously affect the security and order situation.

City Police. Ho Chi Minh City has announced new methods and tricks to make people wary of this type of crime (Photo: Ho Chi Minh City Police Youth Union)

In addition to methods and tricks such as: Calling to transfer money for urgent surgery for an accident child; Impersonating HTV Television Station to invite actors and child models to participate in Ao Dai festival programs, fashion shows… Scammers also have many new criminal methods and tricks through the form of services. online dating.

Specifically, the subjects created ads, inviting participants to become members of the online dating service via the Telegram social networking application. Participants are provided with a link to access, register for an account and pay a fee to become a member of the VIP package.

After registering for an account, participants are required to authenticate to complete the task, receive a commission by accessing the link and pay according to the instructions of the system.

When a participant chooses a service package and pays, the system reports wrong data, the account is locked, and the member has to pay extra money to recover data and unlock the account. If you pay more, you will be issued a dating membership card.

From here, participants are required by the subjects to transfer to designated bank accounts to complete tasks and receive commissions. However, when a participant transfers money, the subjects report an error and give many reasons to entice the participant to pay more and more money with an increasingly high value to appropriate.

Ho Chi Minh City Police advise people to be wary of this type of crime. At the same time, people must immediately notify the nearest functional agency when encountering such cases so that the competent authorities can take measures to handle in accordance with the provisions of the law.