Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training requires schools to prevent criminals from defrauding students.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training requires schools in the area from kindergarten to intermediate and junior colleges to focus on implementing prevention and stopping crimes that take advantage of cyberspace to defraud students and strengthen child protection in the online environment.

The Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City requires schools to strengthen prevention and control of criminals who take advantage of cyberspace to defraud students.

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On October 11, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training sent a document to schools to coordinate the implementation of a campaign against "online kidnapping". Accordingly, the department requested schools to coordinate with local police agencies to organize propaganda and raise awareness among students about the risks, methods and tricks of criminals who take advantage of cyberspace to defraud students; equip students with skills to prevent and handle problems when encountering cybercrime.

Specifically, schools need to propagate and guide students to learn and use documents and media publications provided by the police.

At the same time, propagate and mobilize cadres, teachers and students when participating in activities on the network environment to actively coordinate with competent authorities in ensuring information security; coordinate to prevent information that is harmful to students according to the law on network information security.

Coordinate the implementation and encourage students to participate in experiential activities simulating real-life situations and methods of responding to cybercrime at educational institutions in the campaign organized by the police sector.

At the beginning of this school year, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training also issued a notice asking parents and students to be vigilant and schools to strengthen measures to protect students. It specifically warned against student fraud involving the "online kidnapping" form that has been noted by the police in recent times.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, recently, some parents whose children are in high school reported to the department that they continuously received fraudulent calls, claiming to be from the People's Committee, the police, and the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, asking students to follow instructions.

Specifically, these scammers impersonated admissions officers, asked students to open video calls and make friends via Zalo to send documents from the Department of Education and Training. When committing the scam, the subjects stated the correct addresses of the City People's Committee, the City Department of Education and Training, along with personal information, school addresses, classes... of the students.

In addition, there was a situation where a person impersonated a member of the City Police, and the student's ID number was known and taken advantage of by a bad person, who asked him to go to the police station immediately to resolve the matter. The person also provided accurate information about the parents' names, home address, ID number, etc.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training warns and recommends that all parents and students be vigilant and not listen to or follow instructions when strange phone numbers contact them. Parents and students should not follow the requests of strangers. All information is communicated through the school's official channels and through homeroom teachers to parents and students directly.

At the same time, the HCM City Department of Education and Training requested schools to strengthen measures to protect students; regularly communicate and remind students and parents to be vigilant. Absolutely keep personal information confidential, and advise parents and students not to post personal information on social networks.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/so-gd-dt-tphcm-yeu-cau-truong-hoc-ngan-chan-toi-pham-lua-dao-hoc-sinh-185251011233307904.htm