A student who had just taken the Chinese university entrance exam and was tricked into going to Myanmar was surprised when the gang leader saw his "bright future" and released him with the advice to "study hard".

A Hanoi university student was tricked into staging her own kidnapping after receiving a call from scammers posing as police officers. The perpetrators instructed her to inflict superficial injuries on herself and demand a 370 million VND ransom from her family, threatening to "cut off her fingers" otherwise.

Two young women in Can Tho, Vietnam, were targeted by scammers impersonating police officers, leading to their families being extorted.

A student befriended a supposed delivery driver on Zalo to check on a package, but then received a video call from someone impersonating a police officer. She was threatened and forced to transfer 800 million VND and cut off contact with everyone.