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Update news new types of scams
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security launches a nationwide campaign against online fraud.
Cybercrime involving cryptocurrency scams and black-market trading is surging in Vietnam.
With over 50 formal complaints filed, police are scrambling to document damages in one of the city’s largest suspected 'hụi' frauds.
Banks advise customers to retain messages, phone numbers, and social media account information of scammers, and to take screenshots of threatening messages to report to the police.
Two education leaders created a bogus organization and online exams to issue fake English certificates.
A transnational tech scam based in Cambodia is shut down, with suspects returned to Vietnam for prosecution.
A fake cryptocurrency project promising high returns lures thousands of victims, leading to a major police crackdown.
Following the recent data breach at the National Credit Information Center (CIC), the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department has issued an urgent warning about new, increasingly sophisticated scams targeting the public.
Investigations showed that 22 individuals had exited Vietnam legally with passports, while 57 had crossed the border illegally.
Police in Lao Cai province have dismantled a nationwide fraud network involving illegal cryptocurrency investment schemes worth tens of trillions of dong. Luxury assets, including Mercedes-Benz and BMW cars, valued at over USD 16 million were seized.
Trapped in a Cambodian scam den, Ro Mah Giu from Gia Lai endured constant abuse and was sold between companies. But after months in what was a living hell, Giu was rescued by authorities.
The Criminal Police Division of Thanh Hoa Provincial Police has successfully broken up a massive online fraud and money laundering syndicate operating across borders, seizing evidence of scams worth thousands of billions of VND.
Authorities have uncovered fake BTS devices used to impersonate major institutions in a high-tech fraud scheme targeting the public.
"Online kidnapping" scams using AI and manipulation tactics are targeting Vietnamese youth, warn RMIT experts. Parents are urged to build open, trusting communication.
Authorities arrested the mastermind behind a crypto fraud scheme that conned thousands through a fake token and investment website.
A 26-year-old trafficker deceived job seekers into scam operations under brutal conditions.
Police allege Nguyen Van Ha led MLM-style scheme defrauding investors.
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested a foreign national who used two fake mobile base transceiver stations (BTS) installed in a car to distribute mass scam messages impersonating the National Public Service Portal.
As online kidnapping scams targeting students grow more sophisticated, the Criminal Police Division (PC02) of the HCM City Police Department has launched a dedicated task force, led by Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trung Hoa, to combat this threat.
In a single night, the “online kidnapping” task force of the Criminal Police Division, Ho Chi Minh City Police, successfully rescued two male university students from sophisticated virtual extortion schemes.