Bitterly embracing billions by investing, saving through an app

Many people in Ho Chi Minh City have had a bitter experience of losing billions of VND and had to seek help from the police after investing and depositing money through online apps with hopes of making a profit.

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On February 28, the Crime Police Department (PC02) of Ho Chi Minh City Police received a denouncement from 7 citizens regarding the misappropriation of nearly 4.5 billion VND when participating in investment and savings through the Easy Tuor N app.


Investing and saving through the app to make profit

Sharing with reporters, Mr. N.V.D (54 years old, residing in District 7) said that around October 2023, he knew Ms. P.T.L.D (41 years old, residing in Nha Be District) through relationships of friends and relatives.

Mr. D. recounted the incident of participating in investment, savings on Easy Tour N app and losing money. Photo: Hoang Thuan.

Then, Ms. D. invited him to log into an app called Easy Tuor N via the link easytour-vietnam.com to invest in project packages and savings. Seeing that this app is from a reputable and profitable company, Mr. D. agreed and was introduced to the Zalo group by Ms. D., who was the group leader, and Mr. H.N was the deputy group leader.

According to Mr. D., this group has about 250 members and each member is assigned an account on the Easy Tuor N app. If people want to buy investment packages or save money, they must deposit money to carry out transactions.

The profit will be transferred to the account on the Easy Tuor N app and individuals who want to withdraw must link it with the bank account.

Every day, Ms. D. and Mr. N. call on everyone in the Zalo group to purchase investment packages with terms ranging from 8 hours to 720 days with interest rates ranging from 15% to 20% and depending on the package, interest will be paid per hour, per day, per week.

“At first, I invested in a 10 million VND package and received timely interest payments, so I continued to buy packages with higher amounts. At the end of December 2023, people couldn’t access the app for transactions and everyone lost money. I couldn’t recover over 360 million VND,” Mr. D. angrily said and stated that this is the accumulated and borrowed money from relatives for investment.

The figures show the investment, interest income and profit margin. Photo: Supplied by citizens.

Ms. B.T.P (47 years old, residing in District 7) said that the 8-hour investment packages, short-term ones, have a fluctuating amount of money ranging from 500,000 VND to 1 million VND and receive interest payments on time, so people trust them. Therefore, she continued to invest a larger amount of money and called on relatives to participate as well.

“I was deceived out of over 2.2 billion VND. This amount of money includes salary, accumulated money, and emergency borrowing. Now I hope that functional agencies will promptly intervene so that I can recover the lost amount of money and warn people who want to invest,” Ms. P. said.

Ms. L.T.Q (38 years old, residing in District 7) participated with the purpose of introducing members to receive a discount of 150,000 to 200,000 VND per person. In mid-November 2023, Ms. Q. saw that everyone who invested had profitability so she deposited money to participate and received a profit of about 10 million VND.

After more than 2 months of participation, Ms. Q lost nearly 240 million VND. Photo: Hoang Thuan.

In mid-December 2023, Ms. Q withdrew her savings, borrowed more money from relatives to participate in a package that lasted until January 8, 2024. However, on December 31, 2024, the app crashed and Ms. Q lost nearly 240 million VND.

Knowing that it was impossible to recover the money, Mr. D’s group made a denouncement against Ms. D. and Mr. H.N.


Accused individuals claim to be victims as well

On the afternoon of February 28, when exchanging over the phone, Ms. D confirmed to a reporter from

Tien Phong Newspaper

, that she was the person mentioned in the denouncement that Mr. D’s group sent to the police. According to Ms. D., she was also a victim because she lost several hundred million VND when participating in investments on the Easy Tour N app.

Interface of the Easy Tour N app. Photo: Supplied by citizens.

According to Ms. D., through relationships, around April 2023, she invested and saved money in the above app and saw profits, so she shared with friends for them to earn money. However, Ms. D. and some participants were unable to control their greed and didn’t know when to stop, so they fell into the “trap” with a large amount of money.

“People joined the investment because they saw the profits, I’m not the person who directly invited and not the person who directly takes money from Mr. D or Ms. P. I don’t have a reason to sue when everyone receives all the profits without sharing them with me, so when the app crashed, there was no reason for a lawsuit,” Ms. D. said. Ms. D. explained that if she was a con artist, she would have fled a long time ago and the reporter wouldn’t be able to contact her.

Citizens receive an interest income of over 131,000 VND if they invest 1 million VND with a term of 14 days. Photo: Hoang Thuan.

After the app crashed, Ms. D. couldn’t contact Mr. H.N and considered herself to have made a mistake when not researching information about him before investing. In addition, Ms. D. and many others sent rescue pleas to authorities in Hanoi but until now, there has been no response.

The case is currently under investigation and processing by the police.