Criminal Police Department issues urgent notice after CIC data leak incident

DNVN - The Criminal Police Department (Ministry of Public Security) has just issued an urgent warning regarding fraudulent tricks to appropriate assets on the internet, taking advantage of the cyber security incident that occurred at the National Credit Information Center (CIC) on September 10.

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Warning of common forms of fraud

The Criminal Police Department especially emphasizes the following tricks that fraudsters can use to commit crimes:

Fake messages, emails, social networks : Subjects will impersonate banks, CIC, or credit institutions to send fake messages or emails such as:

"Your bank account information and password have been leaked... We request you to provide information or verify the information or click on the following link to change your password."

"Due to an incident at CIC, we request that you log in to your account using the following link to change your password."

"Bank XXX: Transaction 12,500,000 VND at POS #HANOI. If not you, please enter cancellation code: https://xxx.vn/verify/xxx".

"Bank XXX: Your account is temporarily locked due to suspicious activity. Visit now: http://xxx.vn/unlock to verify information".

"Bank XXX: Detected login from different location. If not you, confirm at: https://xxx-secure.com/confirm".

These links often lead to fake websites or contain malicious code that can steal login information, passwords or download fake applications to take control of the device.

Phone call impersonation : Fraudsters will impersonate the call centers of banks, credit institutions, or CIC to call to notify unsafe accounts, detect risks, and request information and OTP codes for verification.

Impersonating the police force : Fraudsters also impersonate the police force, especially the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention force, to call to notify that the account has illegal transactions, request information for verification or threaten and manipulate the victim's psychology (for example, asking for money to prove innocence; performing "online kidnapping").

Providing false information about CIC data : Fraudsters may provide false information about being able to edit credit information in the CIC system, "clearing CIC bad debts" or selling personal data related to the leak.

Objects and purposes of crime

Scammers often target vulnerable groups of people, including:

Older people with limited technological skills.

Students have little knowledge about life and society.

Workers and freelancers frequently use credit card related services.

Their main purpose is to exploit and collect personal information to build the next scam scenario; trick victims into transferring money themselves; or trick victims into downloading malicious applications to take control of the device and steal money in the bank account.

Urgent recommendation from the Criminal Police Department

To prevent and protect yourself from these scams, the Criminal Police Department recommends that people need to understand and implement the following:

Regularly update information : Update announcements and warnings from police agencies, banks and mainstream media to grasp new fraud methods and tricks, measures to protect personal information and ways to report crimes.

Absolutely do not provide confidential information : In any case, do not provide passwords, OTP codes or other confidential information related to bank accounts to anyone via phone or text message, including subjects claiming to be police or bank officers.

Do not transfer money to unknown accounts : Do not transfer money to any unknown account without verifying specific information, even if those accounts have similar names to state agencies or organizations.

Make transactions through official channels : When you need to change information related to your bank account, go directly to the transaction counter or do it through the official application or official website of that bank.

Propaganda and guidance for relatives : Organize propaganda on methods and tricks of fraud to relatives and friends to proactively prevent. In particular, parents need to strengthen their children's knowledge about life, society, and life skills; at the same time, help and guide grandparents, elderly parents to carry out issues related to technology, how to recognize and refuse fraudulent calls.

Hien Thao

Source: https://doanhnghiepvn.vn/chuyen-doi-so/cuc-canh-sat-hinh-su-ra-thong-bao-khan-sau-su-co-ro-ri-du-lieu-cic/20250916034501448