Scammers hang cards with QR Codes on motorbikes and at entrance doors to attract  people to phony websites and download apps containing malware. The scams have been found in HCM City Soc Trang and Hanoi.

The Public Security Ministry has just warned that scamming tricks of criminals are blooming in accordance with the newest social events and state policies in the country, especially during the approaching holiday.

After being detected with tricks of sending messages to appropriate money, scammers are now using an even more sophisticated tool called Deepfake to make fake video calls to victims and ask for money transfer.

That’s the warning from authorities after a spate of online recruitment scams targeting young people offering ‘high incomes and easy jobs’.

The Ministry of Information and Communications’ (MIC) Authority of Information Security (AIS) has named three major categories of scams, including 16 of the most common scams that occur on Vietnam’s cybersecurity.

Police from the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have arrested 11 suspects, including seven Nigerians for cheating and illegally appropriating property, worth over VND120 billion (US$5.1 million), from Vietnamese citizens online.