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Scams through phone calls have become increasingly prevalent nowadays. Therefore, it is crucial for individuals to exercise caution when receiving suspicious phone calls.

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24 February, 2024

Unknown Caller ID

When you answer the phone, the person on the other end says, “Guess who I am?”. Many people would think of their friends, classmates, or relatives. When you mention someone’s name, the person suddenly changes and says, “Ha ha, you guessed right”.

After that, the scammer starts to bring up intimate topics to gain your trust. When you trust the other person, they will start finding all sorts of reasons to ask for money. At this point, you may think that the other person is a trusted friend and send them money, only to realize later that it’s too late because the person has blocked your calls.

Pretending to be an Official Agency

The Ministry of Public Security has warned about the trick of impersonating and pretending to be officials working in the judicial agencies, which the perpetrators often use. These scams have some common characteristics: They use high technology, hiding their identity under a phone number that exactly matches the [phone number] of the public security agency or the prosecutor’s office to make calls to the victims, informing them that they are being sued for debts or have something related to a case being investigated or verified by the police; they claim to have an arrest warrant from the People’s Procuracy…; they request the victims to declare their assets, the amount of cash they have on hand, and the amount of money in their bank accounts. After that, the perpetrators use threats to temporarily detain the victims for investigation and ask them to transfer money or read the OTP code so that they can transfer money into their accounts under the guise of verification and investigation.

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In addition, there is another characteristic of online fraudsters that people can easily recognize: The perpetrators demand that the victims do not disclose the conversation to anyone. The purpose is to prevent the victims from having enough time to verify the information and report it to the police. Although many victims have no concealment or wrongdoing, they become worried and not vigilant enough to recognize the fraudsters due to the threats and urging words of the perpetrators.

The Ministry of Public Security states that when working, verifying, or investigating individuals, organizations, or businesses, the police will have officers come to work directly or send documents to inform or summon the addressees to the local authorities, company addresses, family members, and the person that the police want to work with. Absolutely no work is conducted through phone calls and social media.

The Ministry of Public Security advises that organizations, individuals, and businesses should be vigilant when receiving phone calls from strangers pretending to be officials of state agencies and judicial bodies, conducting criminal proceedings, to report, request investigation of a case via phone calls or pretending to be bank employees, post office employees, insurance employees, inspectors, or customs officers… requesting to receive money, parcels with high value, or pay unspecified fees or debts.

Absolutely do not provide personal information, phone numbers, ID card numbers (citizen identification card), home addresses, bank account numbers, OTP codes on personal phones… to anyone unknown or when not knowing the identity, background of the person. When receiving messages via social networking sites to borrow money, buy phone cards, request money transfers for account verification; or asking for bank accounts to receive money from overseas… you need to be particularly vigilant and absolutely not follow such requests; quickly contact or call and talk directly with that person to verify the information.

Regularly change passwords or increase privacy security features on social media accounts; do not share too much personal information on social networking sites. Do not share bank account numbers on social networking sites; if there is a need to have a publicly known bank account for trading on the internet, the money in the public account should be kept at the lowest level to avoid being stolen by criminals.

Call from someone claiming to have transferred money to your card

When a stranger suddenly calls you and says they have mistakenly transferred money to your card, asking you to transfer the money back and you have transferred the money to the other person without hesitation, then you are very likely to have fallen into a scam trap.

After waiting for a month, you will find that many loan companies call you because that amount of money was not transferred by mistake but the other person has used your personal information to apply for a loan.

You have been deceived and have to repay the money from the loan company. Therefore, when someone requests a money transfer, you must confirm it clearly and not transfer money blindly.

Be cautious with phone calls requesting personal information, bank account numbers

In reality, many people have had their personal information stolen and property embezzled from phone calls. The trick of the fraudsters is often: They provide false information about winning a prize from a bank or large companies, requesting OTP or providing information about the card or electronic bank account to steal money from the account.

In addition, the fraudsters may impersonate bank officials, requesting passwords, PIN codes, or card information to handle incidents related to banking services or cards.

Therefore, you should be cautious with requests to provide personal information, bank account numbers from phone calls from unknown callers.

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