Police in Da Nang’s Thanh Khe District said on Wednesday that they are investigating an online fraud case with sophisticated scams.

Earlier, at 9:30 on Tuesday, police in An Khe Ward, Thanh Khe District, received a report from Mr. D.A, 39, residing in the ward about being scammed online.

According to the report, on August 21, Mr. A received calls from 0926.485.516 and 0568.779.101 claiming to be Thuan. This person asked if he needed to borrow money, and Mr. A agreed to borrow an amount of VND100 million.

This person befriended Mr. A. via zalo and instructed him to download the Mofin loan app.

Mr. A. filled in his personal information into the above app and proceeded to withdraw money to his account but failed.

When the app asked to deposit money into Mofin wallet to fix the error, Mr. A paid VND20 million to MB Bank’s account number 9704229201796030416 named Pham Thi Thanh.

Then, the Mofin app reported an error and asked Mr. A. to pay money into the wallet 2 more times with a total amount of VND38 million.

At this time, the Mofin app again reported an error with such reasons as ‘risk guarantee’, ‘credit score enhancement’, ‘transfer order insurance’, ‘risk insurance’; at the same time, asked Mr. A to transfer money 7 more times with a total amount of VND597 million.

Then, when being asked to transfer another 300 million VND, Mr. A. suspected of being scammed, so he reported his case to the ward’s police. According to Mr. A, he transferred a total of VND655 million in 10 times through the abovementioned loan app.

The case was then transferred to the Thanh Khe District Division of Police for further investigation and clarification according to its competence.

Reporting by L.H - Translating by M.DUNG