Vietnam: Detecting an online account theft

Two perpetrators: Luong (left) and Cuong (right)

The culprit is a student and an alumni of Hanoi University of Technology. These two people have gone online to steal account information of some foreigners, making online purchases.

More than 10 times, these shipments have been transferred to Vietnam .

These two "computer engineers" were Nguyen Tien Cuong and Truong Duc Luong, who were born in 1983 and were from the same country. Cuong is currently studying at Hanoi University of Technology, while Luong has just graduated from school, joined the IT staff at the Center for Computing and Data Transmission in Region I.

Through grasping the situation of crime, CSDT committed crimes about social security (PC14) Hanoi City Police found that some computerized subjects used sophisticated tricks to steal information from credit card holders Foreigner's account for making purchases via the Internet.

Initial investigation, PC14 identified Cuong's target group - The amount of illegal transactions performed.

Yesterday (November 24), Cuong and Luong were summoned to the investigation agency. Initially, Luong declared in 2004 that he made 10 Internet purchases from the UK and the US, with the amount of about 1,500 euros, the goods purchased were mainly books of informatics and foreign languages. All these goods have been sold online by the Company to Vietnam.

About the tricks, Quantum declared him to some forums (forums) on the Internet. On these forums, hackers have stolen credit card information (account holder names, passwords, and other relevant information) to provide members with free forums. .

The amount taken down this information, fill in the purchase transactions on some websites specializing in online sales such as amazon.com (USA) or amazon.co.uk (UK) . Naturally, when delivered Successfully translating, credit card holders are the ones who have to pay for items they do not buy without knowing it, while Luong just sits in VN waiting for the goods to be delivered by post!

Most victims of Luong are American or British.

With the above procedure, Nguyen Tien Cuong has also repeatedly received goods shipped to Vietnam via Hanoi Post Office. In order to hide his whereabouts, Cuong made a fake ID card named Ngo Tien Cuong to present each time he came to the post office to receive the goods.

However, the item that Cuong received was not only books, but also 'high-class' goods such as a SONY brand-name laptop worth $ 2,000, a SONY ERICSON phone worth $ 900. These transactions of Cuong were only carried out at the beginning and middle of November 2005.

Looking at these things seems to see the behavior of 'culture' more than Cuong, because Luong only steals books. However, explaining the above at the investigating agency, Luong said he could only buy books because Amazon Company only transferred books to Vietnam, not transferring other goods.

He also steals only about 150-200 euros each time, and each account only steals once. The amount said, with such a "small" amount, at the end of each month the account holder found out that he had lost money in his account and would not sue. If the customer has a lawsuit, then Amazon Company will be responsible for compensation, and I . can not!

According to the initial assessment of the investigating agency, Cuong and Luong have committed acts of appropriating property with sophisticated methods and tricks. The case is also related to some other subjects with similar procedures. Investigation agency has temporarily seized Cuong - Quantity and seizure of material evidences and coordination with professional units in Hanoi City opened Wide investigation of the case.

( According to Tien Phong Online )

The amount does not have VDC1 security information

That is the affirmation of Ms. Tran Thi Bach Cuc, Head of Administrative Organization - Regional Center for Computing and Data Transmission (VDC1) on Truong Duc Luong, who has been temporarily detained by the investigation agency for behavior. steal online.

According to the file managed by VDC1, Truong Duc Luong was born in 1983 in An Hoa, Hiep Hoa and Bac Giang communes. At the end of June 2005, Graduated from the Faculty of Information Technology - University of Technology (Hanoi National University, not Polytechnic University as a news newspaper - PV) and accepted to try work at VDC1 through recruitment exams. The probationary period of the Contract amount is two months, starting on September 11, 2005 and ending on 11/11/2005.

Ms. Cuc said: " We have assigned a number of tasks to continue checking Truong Duc Luong's qualifications and capabilities but have not assigned any tasks related to the network of the Center for Data Communication Center. Therefore, we affirmed that Truong Duc Luong does not capture any information about the security system or VDC1 network system ".

Cuc also added that after the probationary period, while the Center's leader is studying to consider continuing the contract period with the amount of online theft of Quant being discovered. Initially, Luong declared in 2004 that he made 10 Internet purchases from the UK and the US, with the amount of about 1,500 euros, the goods purchased were mainly books of informatics and foreign languages. All these items have been transferred to Vietnam by the online sales company.

( According to VnMedia )