Beware of criminals stealing money online

Recently, the theft of bank accounts of foreigners by computer tricks of some bad guys are making many people have bank deposits worried.

Easy to sin .

Last October, Vu Ngoc Ha (Hai Phong), an object specializing in stealing money via the Internet, was arrested. Originally a well-known hacker on the informatics forums, Ha launched viruses into credit accounts of some Australian citizens to steal their personal account information. After that, Ha unlocked and stole their account money with money transfer orders in the form of online purchases or directly transferred to his bank account in Vietnam. The total amount of Ha stolen is estimated at VND 500 million.

Customers must be very careful with their accounts (photos are for illustration purposes only) - Photo: Duc Thien

Most recently, Nguyen Quang Duy 'black hat' hacker (Ho Chi Minh City) has been arrested on charges of illegally intruding and stealing foreign credit account information, stealing money and transferring money personal account. Duy's criminal method is almost the same as Ha's, which also uses computer tricks to crack passwords, steal victims' personal information.

According to Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang, director of BKIS Network Security Center (Hanoi Polytechnic University), informatics tricks that criminals use to infiltrate and steal personal credit account information of the victims is not complicated. Most cases use viruses or spyware (mostly provided by hacker forums) in various forms of disguise (depending on the type of fraud used by criminals) to attack . Therefore, those who understand information technology (IT people) can know about these skills and can take all the same actions if they want. The problem is simply in their consciousness, if they are truly genuine IT people, they will never do so, only bad people, lack of morality will do so. Mr. Quang also added that the subjects of these crimes are mostly foreigners because criminals simply think that foreigners are far away, while they do acts This is online so it is difficult to 'touch' them.

And also easy to catch

It is these simple thoughts that make this type of crime easy to develop. However, the fact that they proved wrong, did bad things, no matter where they will be discovered. Mr. Quang affirmed that the arrest of this type of crime is not difficult, just identify the victim, the search for criminals can be conducted. As Duy's case stated above, when he was arrested Duy was still quite surprised and surprised because he did not know that his offense was investigated by the High-tech Crime Police Department (C15). ) under the Ministry of Public Security. Mr. Quang added: 'Certainly the authorities will deal with such incidents more strictly and stricter in the coming time, because it has begun to appear more and will be noticed more . .

Along with the explosion of information technology, forms of online fraud are also growing with many different ways and levels. Internet users, especially those who start making payments, trade online, need to be very careful and watch out for forms of online fraud. Do not access unclear, unreliable addresses because spyware is always installed everywhere. Moreover, computers used for Internet access need to ensure a minimum level of security, ie, a firewall installation, protection, anti-virus and anti-virus software are required. The operating system must be updated regularly patches. The best way is to regularly change your access password and never save them in your computer's files.

DUC THIEN