‘Online abduction’ scams isolate victims emotionally, targeting Gen Z with scripts that manipulate fear and shame.

Customers have recently reported being scammed by individuals posing as delivery drivers (shippers) demanding money transfers.

As the Lunar New Year (Tet) approaches, financial and banking scams in Vietnam are showing a sharp upward trend, prompting banks and law enforcement agencies to issue repeated warnings.

Cybercrime in Vietnam is expected to escalate in sophistication in 2026, with deepfake technology becoming a dominant tool in online scams, experts have warned.

Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), the country’s largest university, has issued an urgent warning about recent cases of online impersonation involving fraudulent recruitment and donation activities.

Police in Da Nang have taken down a multi-level marketing crypto scam run by Huynh Duc Van and his network.

On the afternoon of December 15, during a press briefing by the Ministry of Public Security, Hanoi police confirmed the extradition of Le Khac Ngo, a key suspect in the high-profile Mr Pips case, from the Philippines to Vietnam.

Authorities in Tay Ninh apprehended six individuals who fled alleged scam operations in Cambodia and reentered Vietnam without documentation.

Online fraud usually spikes during the year-end shopping season, with sophisticated tactics such as deepfakes and brand impersonation.

The alert follows a rise in cases where hackers have used phishing techniques to impersonate emails from popular booking platforms such as Booking.com and Expedia, amid forecasts of surging room reservations ahead of the New Year and Tet holidays.

Some victims of online fraud suffer from such serious psychological manipulation that even when the real police come in person to talk to them, they don't believe the officers and transfer their money to fake police.

Some cybercrime victims are so psychologically manipulated they ignore real police to transfer money to impostors.

Despite numerous warnings, a significant number of students, including those who are well educated, knowledgeable, highly capable, and intelligent, are still being scammed in cyberspace, experts say, citing police reports.

A seemingly harmless message like “I just moved to the city, feeling lonely, can we be friends?” can be a sophisticated trap that many students fall for.

In an era where the internet penetrates every corner of life, cybersecurity expert Ngo Minh Hieu, director of Chong Lua Dao, warns: “The more we interact online, the higher the risk of being attacked.”

Authorities in Hanoi have arrested a foreign national for using a fake mobile base station (BTS) to access mobile networks and distribute fraudulent messages impersonating Vietcombank in a scam operation.

As of October 22, 2025, more than 70 Vietnamese citizens had moved from Myanmar to Thailand as Myanmar authorities launched raids targeting criminal and online fraud establishments.

Cybercriminals in Ho Chi Minh City are employing increasingly sophisticated tactics, posing as representatives of international scholarship programs to manipulate students and steal massive sums of money - amounting to billions of dong.

A deaf and mute worker pregnant with twins tried to buy maternity insurance on social media but ended up being scammed out of all her money. In despair, she considered taking an extreme action but was fortunately discovered and stopped in time.