Many residents in Da Nang have received calls demanding water contract updates and installation of unknown applications; some have lost hundreds of millions of dong.
Authorities received 344 Vietnamese citizens repatriated by Cambodia, most of whom were workers caught in "easy job, high salary" scams, including four wanted individuals.
A female student was about to sell 114 "chi" of family gold, valued at approximately 2 billion Vietnamese dong, after being lured by an online scammer, but police intervened just in time.