Beware of scams to update permanent address after province merger

Ms. TS, a resident of Ha Tien ward, said that on the afternoon of July 1, a person claiming to be named Son, a police lieutenant working in Ha Tien ward, called her to verify personal information and help her family update their hometown and permanent address on the VNeID electronic identification application. "Son said that if I don't update quickly, by July 5 I won't be able to make money transfers or receive money through banking applications. Son asked me to read my citizen identification number and VNeID login password to help me do it," Ms. S. said.

After that, Ms. S. went directly to the ward police to do it, but Son repeatedly refused, saying that there were not enough forces to handle it directly, and that there were a lot of people here. "Because Son kept beating around the bush, preventing me from contacting and going to the ward police, I became suspicious. After that, my husband called the ward police directly, and was told that there was no such incident. The VNeID application is managed by the Ministry of Public Security , personal information will be automatically updated, only then did I realize that I had been scammed" - Ms. S said.

When a citizen's residence information changes, it will be automatically updated on the citizen's VNeID application. Therefore, citizens do not need to perform any operations according to the instructions of strangers.

Similarly, Ms. NTCL, residing in Vinh Thuan commune, also received a call from a stranger asking her to update her hometown on the electronic identification application. “The person who called me, claiming to be a provincial police officer in charge of electronic identification and authentication, contacted me to help me update my personal information and address after the province merger and the removal of the district level. This person also said that I had to do it quickly, otherwise it would affect the handling of administrative procedures later,” Ms. L. said. When the person asked for personal information, VNeID application password, and asked to take a personal portrait photo to send, Ms. L. began to be suspicious. She checked her electronic identification account and saw that information about her hometown and permanent address had been updated by the Ministry of Public Security. “At that time, I discovered that I had just been led by a bad person, and almost had my personal information stolen,” Ms. L. said.

In addition to the scam of updating personal information on the VNeID electronic identification application, some bad guys also impersonate electricity and tax employees to contact people, support updating payment information to steal personal information. Ms. PTML, residing in Son Kien commune, said that someone named Thuy, working at Hon Dat District Electricity, asked her to change the payment information for electricity bills because Hon Dat Electricity was dissolved and was implementing a merger. "Thuy sent me a strange link, instructing me to edit information online. After filling in all the information, my computer froze for about 2 minutes. When the computer worked normally again, there was a notification that a strange account had logged into my bank account. Luckily, this was a sub-account so I didn't lose much money," said Ms. ML.

Faced with the complex developments of fraud schemes, many units such as Electricity Companies, regional tax departments, and provincial and municipal police have issued notices about fraudulent forms aimed at stealing personal information. According to the Ministry of Public Security, updating information about hometown and residential address on the VNeID application is a completely automatic process. When a citizen's residential information changes (including changes due to administrative unit mergers, administrative boundary adjustments or other changes in permanent or temporary residence) and has been updated by the competent police agency into the National Population Database system, this data will be automatically synchronized and displayed accurately on the citizen's VNeID application. Therefore, people do not need to perform any operations according to the instructions of strangers, access strange links or install any additional external applications to update this information...

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