People need to be careful with tricks of providing information after commune mergers.

Although she was cautious when receiving calls from strange phone numbers, when the person on the other end of the line claimed to be an official of Commune A, where Ms. Ng.TN was living, and provided fairly accurate information about her family and daughter, Ms. N. was also less vigilant.

The other end of the line said that during the process of updating data after the commune merger, her daughter, AP, who was about to enter 6th grade, had some incorrect information. In order not to affect her child's rights and social security insurance (as the scammers said), she had to go to the commune administrative center to supplement the information within 3 days.

When Ms. N. said that her family was busy, they gave her another phone number and asked her to call for support. Because she was afraid that she would not be able to provide additional information and lose her daughter's rights in the future, Ms. N. did as they asked. The next step was to lure Ms. N. into making friends on Zalo and following the instructions. Losing her guard, Ms. N. continued to perform the operations, clicking on the links the scammers provided. As a result, the entire amount of more than 3 million VND in Ms. N.'s account "disappeared".

With the same trick, Ms. HTP, MT ward received a call asking her to go to the ward's public administration center to provide additional information to facilitate insurance for her son who will attend high school next year. Hearing that the information about her son, from home address to school, was correct, Ms. P. was not at all cautious. On her way to work, she stopped by the public administration center, called the number that had called her to request a meeting, but the other end of the line hung up and blocked her phone number. Only then did Ms. P. realize she had been scammed.

“If I were at home, I would have followed the scammers’ instructions and requests. Because I thought the information about my son was accurate and I heard that students would soon enjoy many benefits from the streamlining of the apparatus, I was not on guard,” said Ms. P.

Grasping the information of transfer students, taking advantage of the fear of losing benefits or trouble in the learning process of their children if they do not promptly supplement personal information, many parents have been scammed and had their money taken.

To make it easy for victims to trust and lose their vigilance, in addition to accurate information about their children, they use psychological manipulation tricks. When calling, they do not rush or threaten, but only warn that if they do not provide timely information, they will lose their children's rights. Moreover, they do not require people to follow instructions over the phone but encourage people to go to public administrative centers to transact directly. This makes the victims lose their vigilance and then they manipulate their psychology, leading the victims to call someone else for instructions if they need to provide additional information online. From there, they lure them into clicking on links containing malicious code and steal money from their accounts.

To avoid being scammed, it is best for everyone not to click on links provided by strangers, and not to follow instructions that are supposed to support providing online information.

Article and photos: VY VY

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