Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have just fined two men for using Google advertising services to impersonate taxi dispatch centers in order to receive ride requests and earn commissions.
In a report to the press on August 5th, Mr. MT (Ho Chi Minh City) stated that he had just lost 22 million VND in service fees for loan disbursement after trusting someone impersonating a bank employee.
Mac Dang Thanh (residing in Lang Giang, Bac Giang province) impersonated the Deputy Director of the Central Internal Affairs Commission and defrauded individuals and businesses of nearly 10 billion VND.
Trusting scammers, Ms. B. (born in 1992, residing in Hoai Duc, Hanoi) lost 240 million VND after installing a fake app impersonating the General Department of Taxation.
Taking advantage of the leak of vehicle owners' personal information, these individuals impersonated officials from the vehicle inspection center to call and sell mandatory civil liability insurance.
Given the increasing number of cases of fraud involving impersonation of tax officials in various localities, the General Department of Taxation is providing identifying signs to help people recognize these cases.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has requested relevant units to clarify the identity of Nguyen Minh Phuc, who calls himself "Venerable Thich Tam Phuc," appeared in a bar, and previously filmed himself eating dog meat.
A con artist posing as a wealthy businessman swindled eight women out of both love and money, only to meet a tragic end when he became trapped on a 23rd-floor window.
Vietnam Airlines has discovered that several social media pages are illegally using the airline's images to promote and sell aviation career experience programs.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training warns that fraudulent text messages announcing admission to 10th grade and requesting parents to submit enrollment documents are fake.
The Vietnam Social Security agency continues to receive reports of fraudsters impersonating the Vietnam Social Security agency, who are scamming and stealing money from people through social media.
Son Linh Hydropower Construction Investment Joint Stock Company accuses INCO Company of impersonating the company to illegally commence construction of the Son Nham hydropower project.
Recently, many individuals have been using the names of securities companies to lure customers into opening accounts and then misappropriating their assets through various methods.
On the afternoon of March 29, Cho Ray Hospital issued a warning about impersonation and brand imitation aimed at performing unsafe cosmetic surgery procedures.
The Ministry of Education and Training has issued a warning about several websites impersonating the agency and publishing detailed schedules for the 2023 high school graduation exams for each subject.
Defendant Nguyen Tuan Thanh, a former Major and junior investigator at the Criminal Investigation Agency (PC02) of the Ho Chi Minh City Police, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for forgery in the performance of his duties.
Many Ho Chi Minh City police officers were absent from the trial of a former Ho Chi Minh City police major accused of forging the signatures of superiors.
The fanpage "Kids Model Vietnam" is impersonating VTC Television and VTC News to fraudulently recruit child models and demand money from parents to purchase products.
Four people from the 20-09D Vehicle Inspection Center in Thai Nguyen have been temporarily detained by authorities for investigation into a case of "Forgery in official duties" at the unit.
The leaders of the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) affirmed that VOV did not commit to participating in or sponsoring the event where Ms. Tong Thu Ngan was honored as a "World Poet".
Mr. Phan Ho Hai, Principal of Nguyen Cong Tru High School, said that a teacher's Zalo account was hacked, resulting in numerous messages asking parents for money.
An individual who registered and used a domain name that duplicated the domain name of Da Nang Online Newspaper was fined 10 million VND and ordered to have the domain name revoked.
Recently, a fake website impersonating the EVN brand and trademark has continued to appear on the internet with the address: http://app.tietkiemnangluongm.com.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said that in 2020, the Ministry detected and promptly blocked more than 1.700 websites showing signs of fraud.