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| Two Nigerians (L) among seven members of a con ring who were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City earlier this month |
Vietnamese police have arrested
three Nigerians and eight locals belonging to two different gangs for allegedly
conning people out of more than US$1.3 million.
The gangs tricked the victims by
informing them they had won grand prizes or gift packages from abroad but had
to pay some money as fees for collecting the prize or bribing police and
customs officers since the gifts were of big value.
They used bank accounts created with
stolen or fake ID cards to collect the money.
Ho Chi Minh City police arrested
Michael IkeChukwu Leonard, 44, Tuesday with three Vietnamese accomplices for
cheating more than 100 victims around the country out of more than VND20
billion ($900,000) over more than a year.
Earlier this month they had arrested
Ihugba Augustine Chinonso, 30, Onu Chinonso Peter, 31, and five Vietnamese for
tricking many victims into paying VND10 billion since late last year.
One victim from the central city of
Da Nang said she had lost more than VND2.1 billion. She had been promised a
gift package that contained more than a million dollars from a family friend
overseas.
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Fake cards and documents recovered
from them
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A man from Hanoi, who works for a
domestic airline, borrowed money to pay nearly VND3.5 billion to receive a
prize worth $1 million from a UK company.
He said he got a lot of emails, all
in English, and he was trusting because it had all “seemed very professional.”
The members of the latter gang said
they had received instructions from two other foreign men, who are still at
large.
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