Warning about restaurant booking scams during the holidays of April 30 and May 1 to steal money

The subjects faked and appropriated accounts of social network users and contacted relatives in their friends’ lists saying they were stuck while traveling abroad and needed money immediately; Using Deepfake technology, they make video calls to make victims think they are talking to their relatives and that the need to borrow money is real.

Cybercriminals have recently frequently used Deepfake video calls to impersonate an individual and borrow large sums of money from their relatives and friends. Illustration photo: NCSC

The Information Security Department recommends that users can use AI tools such as ‘Intel FakeCatcher’, ‘Microsoft Video Authenticator’ to identify Deepfake to reduce the probability of success of scams. With Deepfake videos, there are a number of tools to help identify mismatched movements between the mouth and the dialogue.

People also need to be careful not to provide personal information such as citizen identification, bank accounts, OTP codes and not transfer money to strangers via phone, social networks, or websites showing signs of fraud. When there is a request to borrow/transfer money to an account via social networks, other authentication methods such as traditional phone calls or using other communication channels should be used to reconfirm.

Fraud on social insurance policies to appropriate assets

Taking advantage of people’s trust in social insurance and health insurance policies, recently, some subjects have impersonated officials of Vietnam Social Insurance to defraud and appropriate property of the people. people when carrying out procedures related to these policies.

Specifically, Mr. NTT living in Ho Chi Minh City was recently assisted by a person impersonating a social insurance employee in creating and processing various types of insurance documents, with a request for a service fee of 900,000 VND. Mr. NTT provided personal information, photos of citizen identification cards and social insurance books to the subject. The subject sent back to the victim a fake image of receiving documents and requested to forward the fee. After transferring money to the subject’s account twice, texting to ask for the results but receiving no response, Mr. NTT realized he had been scammed.

Vietnam Social Insurance currently has only 1 fanpage at facebook.com/baohiemxahoi.gov.vn that has been granted a green check mark by Facebook. People need to be careful to avoid visiting fake pages. Illustration photo: NCSC

The Department of Information Security requests people to increase vigilance; Cultivate your own knowledge about laws, social insurance policies, unemployment insurance, health insurance as well as update information about the methods and tricks of cyber criminals to avoid falling into online fraud traps. .

This agency also informed that in case of problems when implementing administrative procedures of the social insurance industry, people can contact the Customer Care and Support Service Center of Vietnam Social Insurance. Call hotline ‘1900.9068’ or phone number ‘0243.7899999’ (during office hours) for support.

Appropriating tens of billions of dong from a scam using the name of charity donation

Subject L.Đ.H residing in Ho Chi Minh City has just been served by Da Nang City Police with a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the defendant and order the defendant to be detained for fraud and appropriation of property. . Use the social network accounts ‘One Heart Toward Buddha – Nun With Kindness’, ‘Mysterious Buddha Dharma – Nun Nhan Do’, ‘Nun Tam Phuc’, ‘Mysterious Buddha Dharma – Nun Tam Ha’ …, the subject regularly posted pictures of pitiful situations and articles calling for charitable donations to many personal bank accounts. With this trick, the subject appropriated charity money from many people with a total amount of up to tens of billions of dong.

Faced with the above situation, the Information Security Department recommends that people learn carefully about charity and support activities on social networks. In order for kindness to be given to the right place, people with a charitable heart need to choose charity funds and programs organized by the state, organizations, social funds, and charity funds licensed by competent authorities. position. In case of suspicion of fraudulent activities or property appropriation, people need to report to the nearest police agency for timely handling.