Warning about scams impersonating shippers and bank employees

On the afternoon of July 15, Da Nang City Police issued a warning about recent cases of property fraud in the city.

Ms. KO (21 years old, living in Da Nang city) was recently "cheated" by her husband for nearly 8 million VND. The subject impersonated a delivery person (shipper), sent the transfer information and urged Ms. O. to transfer money. After transferring the money, the victim continued to receive another call informing her that she had "transferred to the wrong company account", which meant "registering for membership" and would have 3.5 million VND deducted every month. The subject also sent a fake customer care link to instruct Ms. O to perform additional operations to appropriate her property.

According to Da Nang City Police, Ms. KO’s case is a common trick of subjects impersonating shippers to defraud and appropriate property. Accordingly, they collect and trade data of people who regularly shop online. From this data, they call to notify delivery during the hours when the victim is not at home and request payment transfer. Then they commit violations like the above case.

In another case, on July 11, Mr. NVPĐ. (residing in Thanh Khe ward) received a call from the phone number 02455557665 informing him to open a Vietcombank credit card. Mr. Đ. followed the instructions and when checking his account, he discovered that 30 million VND had been deducted.

According to the police, the subjects impersonated bank switchboard employees to call and invite them to issue credit cards. There, they called or sent messages via SMS or social networks to convince the victims to proactively open a non-physical debit card or apply for a credit card at the bank. Some of the reported fraudulent phone numbers are: 02366888766, 02488860469, 02888865154, 02455557665…

Along with that, the subjects ask the victims to provide card information and OTP code. During the fraud process, the scammers can ask customers to transfer money to pay for application fees, card issuance fees, etc.

With the trick of impersonating bank switchboard staff, the police agency recommends that people absolutely do not provide confidential information (card information, banking application password, OTP code) to anyone; do not access strange links or scan QR codes of unknown origin sent via email, SMS or social networks; regularly update the content of instructions for safe transactions on the bank's website.

In case of suspicion of fraudulent property appropriation in general, people need to quickly report to the nearest police agency for timely reception and handling.