Ms. TS, a resident of Ha Tien ward, said that on the afternoon of July 1, a person claimed to be named Son, a police lieutenant working in Ha Tien ward, called her to verify her personal information and help her family update their hometown and permanent address on the VNeID electronic identification application. "Son said that if I did not update quickly, by July 5 I would not be able to make transactions to transfer or receive money through banking applications. Son asked me to read my citizen identification number and VNeID login password to help me do it," Ms. S. said.
After that, Ms. S. went directly to the ward police station to do it, but Son repeatedly refused, saying that he did not have enough staff to handle the matter directly, and that there were many people there. "Because Son kept beating around the bush, preventing me from contacting and going to the ward police station, I became suspicious. After that, my husband called the ward police station directly, and was told that there was no such incident. The VNeID application is managed by the Ministry of Public Security , and personal information will be automatically updated. Only then did I realize that I had been scammed," said Ms. S.
When a citizen's residence information changes, it will be automatically updated on the citizen's VNeID application. Therefore, citizens do not need to perform any operations according to the instructions of strangers.
Similarly, Ms. NTCL, acting in Vinh Thuan commune, also received a call from a stranger asking her to update her hometown on the electronic identification application. "The person who called me named to be a provincial police officer in charge of electronic identification and authentication, contacting me to help me update my personal information and address after the province was merged and the district level was removed. This person also said that I had to do it quickly, otherwise it would affect the handling of administrative procedures later," Ms. L. said. When the person asked for her personal information, VNeID application password, and asked to take a personal portrait photo to send, Ms. L. began to suspect. She checked her electronic identification account and saw that her information about her hometown and permanent address had been updated by the Ministry of Public Security. “At that time, I just discovered that I had just been led by a bad person, almost having my personal information stolen,” Ms. L. said.
In addition to scamming people to update personal information on the VNeID electronic identification application, some bad guys also impersonate electricity and tax employees to contact people and support them in updating payment information in order to steal personal information. Ms. PTML, acting in Son Kien commune, said that someone named Thuy, working at Hon Dat District Electricity, asked her to change the payment information for the electricity bill because Hon Dat Electricity was dissolved and was implementing a merger. "Thuy sent me a strange link, instructing me to edit the information online. After filling in all the information, my computer froze for about 2 minutes. When the computer worked normally again, there was a notification that a strange account had logged into my bank account. Luckily, this was a sub-account so I didn't lose much money," said Ms. ML.
Faced with the complex developments of fraud schemes, many units such as Electricity Companies, regional tax departments, and provincial and municipal police have issued notices about fraud forms aimed at stealing personal information. According to the Ministry of Public Security, updating information about hometown and residential address on the VNeID application is a completely automatic process. When a citizen's residential information changes (including changes due to administrative unit mergers, administrative boundary adjustments or other changes in permanent or temporary residence) and has been updated by the official police agency into the National Population Database system, this data will be automatically synchronized and displayed accurately on the citizen's VNeID application. Therefore, people do not need to perform any operations according to the instructions of strangers, access strange links or install any additional external applications to update this information...
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