In 2023, although there have been many warnings about tricks of impersonating police officers and officials to fraudulently appropriate property, many people still fall into the trap.
Impersonating a police officer, fraudulently appropriating nearly 10 billion VND: Nguyen Huu Thanh (born 1991, from Quang Nam province) pretended to be a police officer and at the same time forged documents and stamps of the authorities to the victim believes. Thanh went online to search and research methods and procedures to send people to work, settle and study abroad. To give victims more confidence, Thanh opened SGM Immigration Law Office (registered address on Ta My Duat Street, An Hai Bac Ward, Son Tra District, Da Nang City). However, this is just a “front” to blind the authorities. Using the above trick, from October 2022 to November 2023, Nguyen Huu Thanh deceived 17 victims with a total amount of about 10 billion VND. On November 2, Thanh was arrested by Da Nang Police.
Impersonating an officer of the Ministry of Public Security, defrauding more than 9 billion VND: In 2018, Nguyen Phuong Binh (born 1981, living in Dong Thap province) knew Ms. P. (living in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City) and introduced himself as an officer. Ministry of Public Security, currently working at the Ministry of Public Security and established Phat Tai Company Limited (Ward 3, District 6). To build trust, Binh repeatedly showed Ms. P. some police support tools such as handcuffs number 8… and then made up many stories to ask Ms. transferred to Binh a total of more than 9 billion VND. On December 17, 2023, Ho Chi Minh City Police said they had urgently arrested Binh for investigation and clarification.
Impersonating a provincial union official to defraud his former classmate of more than 9 billion VND: Nguyen Thanh Nam (born 1997, residing in Duc Tho, Ha Tinh) took advantage of the fact that he used to be a high school class president with Mr. Tran Thanh T. (in Nghe An). An), so every time he met T., Nam pretended to be an expert and Deputy Head of the Provincial Youth Union’s inspection organization committee. When he saw that T. believed in him, Nam immediately offered to borrow money from Mr. T. to promote himself. Nam also fraudulently borrowed money from T. to run positions for some officials so that he could later be given favorable conditions at work. With the above tricks, Nguyen Thanh Nam fraudulently appropriated Mr. T. the amount of more than 9.4 billion VND. On November 20, Nam was detained by Nghe An Police in an emergency.
Impersonating the provincial police to fraudulently appropriate 7 billion VND: Around April 2023, Le Thua Son (48 years old, permanent resident of Nong Cong district, Thanh Hoa province) went to Da Nang to visit and became acquainted with Ms. Nh. and Ms. H. To build trust, Son “exploded” that he was an officer of the Thanh Hoa Provincial Police, had many relationships with superiors and could handle everything related to running cases and preparing land documents. . Son produced a fake People’s Police ID card bearing his name, and used a fake green license plate attached to his personal car. Because they believed Son was a “real police officer”, the two victims gave Son 7 billion VND to take care of his work. In early November 2023, Son was arrested by Da Nang Police.
Impersonating a Government inspector, defrauding 10 billion VND: Pham Thai Mai Huong (40 years old, living in Ho Chi Minh City) introduced herself as an officer working at the Government Inspectorate, with connections to many central agencies. and the police should be able to “pay bribes” and intervene in property fraud cases. If the victim wants to get their property back, they must give Huong some money. After the victim trusted her and gave her money, Huong appropriated the victim’s money. With the above tricks, Huong appropriated more than 10 billion VND. In early November 2023, Huong was urgently arrested by Ho Chi Minh City Police.
Impersonating a cadastral officer to defraud nearly 800 million VND: Tran Van Dung (born 1985, residing in Thang town, Hiep Hoa district, Bac Giang province) often introduces himself as a cadastral officer, an officer of Bac Giang Department of Natural Resources and Environment can carry out procedures to apply for land use rights certificates; Converting land use rights defrauded many people in Hiep Hoa district of nearly 800 million VND. On September 21, Bac Giang Provincial Police issued a decision to prosecute the defendant and ordered temporary detention for Tran Van Dung.
Impersonating a police officer defrauded 16 billion VND: Due to being in debt and needing money for expenses, Nguyen Van Quang (born 1996, from Bac Giang) impersonated an officer of the Ministry of Public Security to defraud and appropriate the assets of the police. victim. During the fraud, Quang took advantage of his acquaintance with Hoang Thuy Luong (born 1981) and a number of other victims, then lured Luong into giving money to Quang under the pretense of needing money for work. Initially, the police determined that Nguyen Van Quang had fraudulently appropriated from many people an amount of about 16 billion VND. In September 2023, Cao Bang Provincial Police decided to prosecute the defendant and ordered Nguyen Van Quang to be temporarily detained.
Impersonating a district police officer, defrauding nearly hundreds of millions of dong: Due to debt, Le Thanh Hung (29 years old, residing in Hoa An commune, Phu Hoa district, Phu Yen province) impersonated a police officer and went on social networks to approach him. , getting acquainted, flirting with gullible women, asking to borrow money and then defrauding and appropriating the victim’s property. To commit the crime, Le Thanh Hung bought a People’s Police outfit to wear and took photos, posting them on social networks using his personal accounts to create trust. A woman was scammed out of nearly 100 million VND. In August 2023, Hung was arrested by Thanh Hoa Police.
Impersonating a state official to defraud nearly 10 billion VND: Mac Dang Thanh (born 1992, residing in Xuan Huong commune, Lang Giang district, Bac Giang province) impersonated an officer of a General Department of the Ministry of National Defense and inspected the Ministry of National Defense and then was transferred to become Deputy Director of the Central Internal Affairs Commission; At the same time, he also pretended to be the Deputy Director of Huy Hoang Trading and Services Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province) to fraudulently appropriate nearly 10 billion VND from a number of companies and individuals in the form of “” running for jobs”, “running for projects”, “running for cases”… In August 2023, Thanh was arrested by Bac Giang Police and searched at his workplace.
