They are clever but used in wrong area leh
Five foreigners arrested for swindling
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Police in Ho Chi Minh City have detained four Chinese and a Taiwanese national who used hi-tech facilities to defraud others of their bank deposits in many countries.
Yesterday morning, police raided a house in the My Khanh 2 apartment building in District 7 and caught Wang Xi, 22, Zhou Yong Shang, 31, and Fu Yu Sheng, 29, using hi-tech electronics to swindle their victims.
From their testimonies, the police later arrested the ringleader, Liu Kuei Han, 33, and another culprit, Hsu Hsuan Yu, 27, in another location.
The police seized four computers, a CPU, a monitor, eight walkie-talkies, five mobile phones, and numerous other pieces of electronic equipment from the group.
The foreigners said that after arriving in Vietnam in October 2011 they used hi-tech telecom equipment and the Internet to the steal bank account numbers of many citizens in different countries and territories.
They later contacted their victims, claiming to be officials from banks, prosecutor’s offices or courts in the victims’ countries, and informed the accounts holders that their deposits had been used secretly by criminals for illegal purposes.
They then persuaded the victims to transfer their deposits to a bank account designated by them for safety.
They falsely told their victims that the account was controlled by relevant authorities.
Many people, for fear of losing their deposits, followed the swindlers’ advice, and after their money was put in that account, the ring would withdraw all of it.
The swindlers confessed that they had appropriated 200,000 yuan (US$31,650) from their victims.
The police are continuing their investigation.