On November 5, Son Loc Ward Police (Son Tay Town, Hanoi) said they had promptly prevented a case of impersonating a police officer to defraud an elderly woman of 400 million VND.
Specifically, on October 30, Ms. CTV (born in 1946, in Son Loc ward) went to a bank branch on Chua Thong street (Son Loc ward) to withdraw money to solve family matters.
Seeing Ms. V. looking worried and scared, the bank staff asked her. Ms. V. said that a stranger called her, claiming to be from the Hanoi City Police Department, saying that she had a wanted warrant related to a drug trafficking ring.
The subject asked her to hand over all the money she had deposited in the bank to ensure the investigation. If Ms. V. had nothing to do with that drug ring, the investigation agency would send someone to return the money to her.
Ms. V. added that she currently has about 400 million VND in 2 bank accounts.
After receiving the above information, the bank staff reported it to the Son Loc Ward Police. The police immediately coordinated with the bank to temporarily suspend Ms. V.'s transactions to avoid transferring money to the scammer.
At the same time, the police force explained to Ms. V. the content of the case and educated her about the common fraudulent tricks to appropriate property today.
Through the above incident, Hanoi City Police recommends that people need to be vigilant, propagate to relatives, friends, especially the elderly in the family about fraudulent tricks, to avoid falling into the traps of bad guys.
To work with people, the police will directly send invitations, summonses or send them through the local police. When detecting cases with signs of fraud, people need to immediately report to the nearest police agency.
Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/ngan-chan-ke-gia-danh-cong-an-lua-tien-cua-cu-ba-o-ha-noi-2339051.html
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