Vietnam: How to report online scams? Hotline to report online scams to be publicized in 2022?
What are some common online scams in Vietnam?
Nowadays, online scams are not new to everyone. There was a time when this scam lured a huge number of gullible people.
They use many tricks to scam through the Internet, telecommunications networks, online applications,... to take advantage of gullible people. Some signs of scams that they often use in the past include:
- Take control of the victim's Facebook, Zalo, ... accounts, then use this account to text messages to ask relatives and friends to transfer money, top up phone cards according to instructions.
- Message the victim to have won a prize of great value, request a donation to support the fund for the poor and disabled by transferring money to the account or top up phone cards to the subjects.
- Post job ads on Facebook and entice the victim to become a sales associate, then ask the victim to spend some money to buy goods on e-commerce platforms.
After enticing the victim to purchase and evaluate the product, the victim will be paid for the goods and paid an additional commission. Next, they will perform two specific scenarios as follows:
+ Steal the victim's purchase amount and delete the contact;
+ Transfer a small commission to the victim to gain trust, then when there are larger orders, the victim has received the goods, these objects will steal money and block contact ...
Vietnam: How to report online scams? Hotline to report online scams to be publicized in 2022?
Get acquainted and approach the victim via Facebook, Zalo, etc. After talking for a while and building trust from the victim, the subjects offered to transfer cash as a gift.
After gaining trust from the victim, the subjects pretending to be bank employees inform the victim that there is a parcel sent from abroad and ask the victim to transfer an amount of money in advance to pay taxes and transport fee... And after receiving money from the victim, the subjects will appropriate all this money and delete the contact.
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 5, Article 25 of the Universal Postal Convention and Final Protocol 1999 provide for unacceptable items. It is forbidden to send specifically the following:
"Article 25: Postal items are not accepted. Sending is prohibited
...
Prohibit the introduction of metal coins, banknotes, securities, worked or unworked platinum, gold or silver traveler's checks, precious stones, jewelry or other articles of value. Other values in:
5.1- In undeclared items, however, where permitted by the laws of the sending and receiving countries, the above items may still be delivered in sealed envelopes as a numbered Postage;
5.2- In undeclared parcels exchanged between two countries that accept to open the declared parcel service; In addition, postal administrations have the right to prohibit the sending of gold bullion in declared or undeclared items to or from their territory, or in transit through that country. Countries reserve the right to limit the actual value of these items."
Accordingly, money is one of the prohibited goods and items sent by post, so it will not be possible for someone from abroad to send cash by post to Vietnam as a gift.
How to report online scams in Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 145 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2015 stipulates:
"Article 145. Responsibilities and authority to receive and process denunciations, criminal information disclosed and requisitions for charges
1. All denunciations, information and charge requests must be fully acquired and processed in timely manner. The authorities shall be responsible for receiving and not rejecting denunciations, information and requisitions.
2. The authorities responsible for receiving denunciations, criminal information disclosed and requisitions for charges shall include:
a) Investigation authorities and procuracies that obtain denunciations, information and requisitions;
b) Other authorities that take in denunciations and criminal information disclosed.
3. The authority to handle denunciations, information and charge requests is given to:
a) Investigation authorities processing intra vires denunciations, information and requisitions;
b) Units assigned to investigate process denunciations and criminal information disclosed within its powers;
c) The procuracy processes denunciations, information and charge requests when investigation authorities or units assigned to performed certain activities of investigation are found to commit serious violations of the laws during their inspection and verification of denunciations, criminal information disclosed, requisitions for charges or omission of crimes. Furthermore, such issues have not been settled despite the Procuracy’s written requests.
4. The authorities empowered to process denunciations, information and charge requests are responsible for informing authorities and entities making denunciations, disclosing criminal information and requisitioning for charges of the results of the former's tasks."
Article 5 of Joint Circular 01/2017/TTLT-BCA-BQP-BTC-BNN&PTNT-VKSNDTC stipulates as follows:
"Article 5. Responsibility to receive and handle crime reports and petitions for prosecution
1. The following organizations have the responsibility to receive and handle crime reports and petitions for prosecution;
a) Investigating authorities;
b) Agencies assigned to investigate;
c) Procuracies at all levels;
d) The organizations specified in Point b Clause 2 Article 145 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2015: police authorities of communes, police stations; courts at all levels; press agencies and other organizations.
2. The power to receive and handle crime reports and petitions for prosecution
a) The organizations specified in Point a and Point b Clause 1 of this Article, except for security teams of police authorities of districts, which have the power to handle crime reports within their competence.
b) The Procuracy shall handle a crime report in the cases where the investigating authority or agency assigned to investigate commits a serious violation of law during verification of the crime report or is suspected of omission of crime and fails to make rectification within 15 days from the day on which such authority or agency receives a written request from the Procuracy."
Based on the above provisions, victims of online scams cases can report the crimes to the above agencies for timely settlement.
What is the hotline to report online scams in 2022?
- Hotline 113 and Facebook page of Hanoi City Police, address: https://www.facebook.com/ConganThuDo;
- Hotline for Department of Cyber Security and Hi-tech Crime Prevention: 069.219.4053;
- Vietnam information security warning page: https://canhbao.ncsc.gov.vn.
- For people in Ho Chi Minh City: Call the hotline number 08.3864.0508
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