City police bust hi-tech crime ring

Police in HCM City have caught an alleged criminal group of people from Taiwan using high technology to defraud others, mainly Chinese.

Municipal police said it was co-ordinating with other relevant agencies to expel the 26 Taiwanese offenders.


On July 14, police raided a house in Nguyen Van Huong Road, Thao Dien Ward, District 2 and found a gang using high-tech telecom devices to swindle victims.

Police seized two computers, eight Voice IP Gateway devices, two wifi broadcast systems, two converters, two switches and 14 laptops.

The swindlers posed as customer service and bank staff to defraud the victims, guiding them to use their ATMs in China based on more than 50 scenarios they had prepared.