Tag: "online scam"
Bank staff, police foil $50,000 overseas transfer scam in north-central Vietnam
Vietnam News 08:46 29/03/2026Bank employees and local police in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam have helped a woman avoid falling victim to an online scam involving a promised overseas money transfer worth US$50,000.
Elderly Vietnamese woman narrowly escapes $800,000 ‘international gift’ scam
Vietnam News 08:18 13/02/2026A 72-year-old woman in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam, has narrowly avoided losing her life savings after falling victim to an online scam involving a purported ‘international gift’ worth US$800,000.
205 Vietnamese arrested in Cambodia-based online scam ring led by Chinese
Vietnam News 16:22 15/01/2026Vietnamese police have dismantled a large transnational online fraud network in Cambodia, arresting 205 Vietnamese nationals and repatriating 74 of them so far, authorities in Tuyen Quang Province, northern Vietnam said on Thursday.
