A group of Vietnamese individuals working in Cambodia, accused of appropriating 3,000 billion VND annually through cyber fraud, were recently arrested upon entering Vietnam.
Four young men traveled to Cambodia, working 15 hours a day as part of a syndicate that impersonated police officers, sent malicious links to seize phone control, and defrauded victims of 19 billion VND.
Phan Ngoc Gia Huy, 21, used props to impersonate a woman during explicit video calls, secretly recording victims' private images before threatening and extorting money.
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.
Pho Duc Nam, also known as Mr Pips, is accused of traveling to Turkey to learn how to establish a stock trading platform, then returning to Vietnam to launch websites to entice investors, defrauding them of over 1.3 trillion VND.
After spending over one million yuan on his girlfriend during their six-year relationship, Mr. Wang was shocked to find out she was actually married with children, who were already in middle school.