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Dozens of phones, laptops, ATM cards, storage devices and other documents have been seized by the police. Based on the number of retrieved bank cards, the group has scammed over VND500 billion in Vietnam alone.
- VnExpress International Vietnamese police have busted a telephone scam led by a group of five Taiwanese men who allegedly pretended to be police officers to swindle victims out of billions of Vietnamese dong.
telephone scam - Vietnamese police have busted a telephone scam led by a group of five Taiwanese men who allegedly pretended to be police officers to swindle victims out of billions of Vietnamese dong.
phone police scam - Three Taiwanese men posing as police officers were among 10 phone scammers jailed in HCMC for swindling VND10 billion ($430,944) out of their Vietnamese victims.
The Vietnam Telecommunications Authority announced Monday that phone numbers with data not matching the national database would be locked one-way starting March 31. Son said scammers could then exploit people by fraudulently coercing them into giving up their personal data.
The warnings have been issued in light of recent reports in which customers have received emails and phone calls, supposedly from the police or even the banks themselves, asking for personal information, including credit card and card verification numbers.
phone scam - Six Taiwanese were among 12 people jailed for swindling over VND5.5 billion ($236,000) from Vietnamese citizens in a phone scam. VnExpress International is a leading source for politics, economic, finance, travel & food from Vietnam and ASEAN.
