The lawyer said that the trick to hack Facebook to cheat money transfer is not new. However, there are still many victims who are gullible, gullible, transfer money to objects and have their property appropriated.
Recently, the Ministry of Public Security has informed regarding 8 tricks of online fraudsters.
One of them is “Using various tricks to hijack social media accounts (sending fake links to Covid-19 disease information, recruitment ads, working from home, games). online entertainment…). Then send phishing messages to the victim’s friends list”.
For example, on June 16, 2022, the Police Investigation Agency of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, accepted to investigate a Facebook fraud case. According to Ms. NTCL’s report (in District 9, Ho Chi Minh City), on the followingnoon of June 9, she received a message from a friend’s Facebook account named D, asking for a loan of 12 million VND.
Ms. L. because of trust did not call or use other methods to verify and transfer money to the bank account provided by the messenger. Not stopping, Ms. L was also asked to transfer a large amount of money on her behalf. Only at this time, the victim felt something was wrong and called D. to ask.
When talking directly with her friend, Ms. L. learned that D.’s Facebook account had been hacked and that she had transferred money to the scammer.
Around June 2022, Binh Phuoc Provincial Police clarified two subjects who hacked Facebook to cheat and appropriate property.
Specifically, from the report of Ms. LTNN (in Dong Phu district, Binh Phuoc province), the police learned that someone hacked her Facebook account and took control. After that, the crooks deceived many friends of Ms. N. to appropriate 55 million dong.
By the above tricks, these two subjects hacked more than 300 Facebook accounts, fraudulently appropriating regarding 1.2 billion VND.
Commenting on this situation, lawyer Nguyen Thi Suong, FDVN Law Firm, said that these are all old tricks. However, there are still many victims who are gullible, gullible, transfer money to objects and have their property appropriated.
Giving advice, the lawyer recommends that users of social networks need to be vigilant. When you receive a request to transfer money from an acquaintance via social media message, first call them directly to verify if it is correct or not.
“And in the unfortunate case of being scammed to appropriate assets, please immediately contact the bank that transferred the money for support, and report it to the local police agency for timely settlement.” Lawyer Suong said.
The lawyer’s point of view is that in order for the social networking space to be healthy and to be used effectively and safely, the authorities need to review and punish “strongly” those who commit acts of “jailbreaking and theft”. stealing”, using passwords and information of other organizations and individuals in the network environment, for the purpose of fraudulently appropriating property.
From a legal perspective, the lawyer said that the highest penalty for the crime of “fraudulently appropriating property”, defined in Article 174 of the Penal Code, is imprisonment of 12-20 years or life imprisonment, depending on on the amount appropriated and other circumstances related to the act.
In cases where criminal prosecution is not enough, the person who uses deceitful tricks to appropriate other people’s property may be fined from 2 to 3 million VND according to Decree No. 144/2021/ND- CP.
“Only for the act of “cracking, stealing”, using passwords, cryptographic keys and information of other organizations and individuals in the network environment, violators may be subject to a fine of 10-20 million dong, according to Article 80 of Decree No. 15/2020/ND-CP”, said lawyer Suong.
