The Da Nang Police Department has issued an official dispatch to encourage people to protect personal property.

Accordingly, through the investigation of cases related to the use of cyberspace and fraudulent high-tech equipment to appropriate property, the local police discovered that most of the subjects used bank accounts owned by others to
to receive fraudulent money.

Most of these accounts are owned by people living in difficult circumstances or being lured by fraudsters to open and trade them, thereby creating favourable conditions for criminals to use them as a tool to perform fraud in cyberspace.

In addition, over the past time, many fraudsters have impersonated law enforcement forces, over the phone or through social networks such as  Zalo and Viber, to try to cheat people out of their large amount of money.

In detail, the scammers claimed they were police officers investigating crimes, and they suspected these victims of having involvement in criminal rings.

The fake police then asked for the victims to provide personal information, open a bank account, provide OTP (One Time Password) or to transfer money in saving accounts to their accounts to verify its origin.

If the victims refused to co-operate, the scammers threatened that they would be arrested for several months to undergo rigorous investigations.

The impersonators also claimed that if the victims’ innocence was proven, the money would be returned in a short period, and asked such deals to be kept secret.

The local police has recommend people not to open, buy and sell personal accounts. In case people have opened a bank account and then transferred it to others to use, they need to bring their personal papers to the bank to complete the procedures to close that account in a bid protect themselves and prevent scammers from using them to commit violations.

Also, people should not provide personal information, passwords of social network accounts, banks, e-wallets and OTP codes to strangers or transfer money to organisations or individuals impersonating law enforcement forces.

Reporting by LE HUNG – Translating by A.THU