A group of eight individuals from South Korea and China were discovered operating an online scam system, setting up their headquarters in a luxury villa in Hanoi.
Twenty-two individuals, operating from "scam headquarters" in Myanmar and Cambodia, have been apprehended by police at airports and border gates for impersonating state officials to lure over 1,000 people into online investment fraud.
A young man, A Nghia, was recently repatriated to Vietnam after escaping an online scam facility in Cambodia. He reported being lured into a stranger's car after a drinking session, only to awaken across the border.
A scam ring operating from Cambodia, impersonating successful but lonely individuals, enticed over 3,000 single middle-aged women into online investments, defrauding them of more than 7,500 billion dong.
A group impersonating lawyers operating in Cambodia was apprehended upon entering Vietnam, with initial investigations revealing a scam ring that defrauded victims of nearly 1,000 billion dong.
A 45-year-old woman was threatened by her online boyfriend to post sensitive videos on social media, compelling her to transfer 4 billion VND into a fake CME GROUP trading platform for investment.
Police quickly intervened after a report of a 76-year-old woman attempting to transfer over 2 billion Vietnamese dong to an unknown account at a bank, believing it would "save her son from a serious traffic accident".
