The Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City has just issued a document proposing to the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to request the Ministry of Information and Communications to manage and resolve the situation of subjects using unregistered phones and junk SIM cards to evade responsibility when discovered and handled by the investigation agency.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications said that recently, cases related to fraud and property appropriation on cyberspace and via telephone subscribers have been developing very complicatedly, with an increasing trend with new, sophisticated, unpredictable methods and tricks, causing many difficulties for authorities in detecting, investigating and handling violations.

Meanwhile, when receiving feedback, denunciations, and complaints from individuals or organizations related to the use of foreign SIM cards or social network accounts for fraud, harassment, and other illegal acts, State management agencies and investigation agencies cannot proactively update and verify information of the subjects committing the above illegal acts. Instead, these agencies must send documents to agencies of the Ministry of Information and Communications and telecommunications enterprises to request information provision or coordination in handling according to regulations.

On average, it takes 15-20 days for the above agencies to receive feedback. This affects the progress of handling violations, especially in many cases of violations by foreign social media accounts that are not handled promptly or do not remove the violating information.

Based on the above practical situation, the Department of Information and Communications proposed that the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee recommend the Ministry of Information and Communications to coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security to consider issuing a coordination process regulating the method and time for verifying and providing subscriber information between telecommunications enterprises and state management agencies and police investigation agencies at the central and local levels.

At the same time, direct telecommunications network operators to urgently connect and share mobile subscriber user data with citizen data.

Propose that the Department of Telecommunications - Ministry of Information and Communications share and provide an account allowing the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City to look up mobile subscriber information of users in the city to serve the management, fight and handle violations.

Recommend that the Ministry of Information and Communications direct the Vietnam Internet Center to issue accounts and allow the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City to look up data information about the subjects registering, using and managing ".vn" domain names and international domain names that have notified their activities to the Ministry of Information and Communications to serve the management, fight and handle violations.

As well as sharing, providing a list of contact information and authorizing the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City to work directly with service providers and cross-border platforms to handle content belonging to Ho Chi Minh City.