Officers from the Thanh Xuan Trung Ward Police encourage Ms. N.T.M and explain the swindler’s tricks.
At around 1:30 pm on October 3rd, the Thanh Xuan Trung Ward Police received a call from the Transaction Office of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), located at 143 Nguyen Tuan, Thanh Xuan, reporting an elderly woman in her 80s who insisted on transferring 300 million VND immediately.
Upon receiving this information, Captain Tran Trung Hieu, Deputy Chief of Thanh Xuan Trung Ward Police, and the Criminal Police team promptly arrived at the bank to verify the incident. Captain Hieu and his team approached Ms. N.T.M., who seemed frightened and confused. They calmly explained the situation, reassuring her that she was a victim of fraud.
Once Ms. M. calmed down, she revealed that she had received a call from an unknown man claiming to be an officer from the Hanoi Police. He accused her of being involved in a drug trafficking and money laundering ring and stated that the Hanoi People’s Procuracy had issued an arrest warrant for her temporary detention. The scammer instructed her to transfer 300 million VND to a specified account and warned her not to inform anyone, including her family. Out of fear, she followed his instructions and went to the bank to make the transfer.
The police officers from Thanh Xuan Trung Ward immediately contacted the BIDV branch at 143 Nguyen Tuan to halt the transaction. They explained the scam to Ms. M. and contacted her family to pick her up. Ms. M.’s son, Mr. Pham Bang Viet, expressed his gratitude, stating that the money his mother tried to transfer was their savings for her elderly care and lung cancer treatment. He thanked the police and BIDV for their timely intervention and support.
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