The Hanoi Police on November 16 said that recently, the Department of Cyber Security and Crime Prevention and Control of High Technology of the City Police received a woman's report on the loss of VND 4 billion when making friends online.
Accordingly, Ms. T (residing in Hanoi) received a message of acquaintance on social networks. This person introduced himself as a “single father”, working at a technology company. The process of talking, the two of them shared more and emphasized.
After that, this person announced the business trip to send the decision of the company and the air tickets and in this process, constantly updated, the video when coming to the airport, when checking in the hotel, Ms. T completely trusted.
A few days later, the man sent Ms. T with a link to ask Ms. T to help. At first, the “single father” deposited 100 million dong and asked Ms. T to withdraw the amount of 115 million. After that, this person told her to set up a new account, waiting for the opportunity to take advantage of a lot of interest. Ms. T was instructed to manipulate, each time to play has a chance of interest.
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Within 6 days, she made 14 transactions with a total amount of nearly 4 billion. When she was planning to withdraw money, the system reported an error. At this time, she was asked to deposit more than 900 million VND to be withdrawed. Doubted to be deceived, on November 14, 2024, Ms. T went to the police to report the incident.
According to the Hanoi Police, now, the use of artificial intelligence AI is increasingly popular and inevitably being used by subjects for fraud. Increasing AI application subjects combine the use of Deepfake, Deepvoice technologies, .. to counterfeit information, create a script that can easily reach social network users to cheat.
Therefore, in order to prevent fraud, the Hanoi Police recommends people to be alert when participating in online dating applications and invitations to make friends from strange objects via social networks, online dating applications. Be careful when participating in the application, the online financial investment website advertises high profits because it is likely to be at risk.
Absolutely do not follow the instructions for transferring money to any individual, organization and any reason if the identity has not been identified exactly. When detecting cases of fraud, people need to report to the police to promptly settle the case as prescribed.