The police reported that the number of traditional crime cases have been on the decrease, but cyberspace crime has increased sharply, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Many people are still trapped by online scams despite warnings from authorised agencies.

Receiving spam calls is common among mobile phone users in Vietnam but many have been threatened recently after telling the invasive callers to stop annoying them.

The Ministry of Public Security has warned of three common fraud groups in cyberspace in Vietnam - brand counterfeiting frauds, account hijacking and other forms of combined traps.

The use of identification of digital accounts, including social network accounts, will eliminate content that is bad, false, illegal, and harmful to society.

Cybercriminals have begun deepfake video technology to make fraudulent calls and appropriate money.

The Authority of Information Security (under the Information & Communications Ministry) has just informed that 90 websites with the suffix ‘.gov.vn’ were hacked to link to gambling advertisements.

Seeing that sensitive information leaks have been reported recently, SGGP Newspaper has conducted an interview with Deputy Head Trieu Manh Tung of the Department of Cyber Security and Hi-tech Crime Prevention (under the Public Security Ministry).

The State Securities Commission (SSC) has issued a warning to investors about false information about fund management companies such as Dragon Capital and VinaCapital.

Many criminals are using a new scheme, taking advantage of videocalls to swindle people.

Many websites have been created to trick people into transferring money to them.

The first days of the New Year are the time for scammers to increase their activities. The most common tricks are stealing information and money from victims’ accounts.

Many people have lost hundreds of millions of VND as they were too trusting of invitations on social media to make financial investments. They have lost property when accessing unfamiliar links.

As many as 113,384 fraudulent websites were reported in 2021 in Vietnam. Of these, 22,000 websites were put on a black list after verification.

Online scams have been climbing steadily in recent years as more people are taken in by "easy money" tricks.

With nothing obtained and losses incurred, the victims of the dating app scam have been left in the depths of despair.

Online scams have become more and more common in recent years, causing a great deal of anxiety in society.