Vietnam arrests 19 Chinese nationals in online fraud case

Vietnam arrests 19 Chinese nationals in online fraud case

Police in Vietnam have arrested 19 Chinese nationals accused of running an online fraud ring in the northern province of Lao Cai after relocating from Cambodia.

According to authorities, the group rented rooms at the Song Hong View Hotel, where they set up laptops, smartphones, and 5G broadcasting devices to target Chinese citizens seeking loans by posing as lending-app employees.

The suspects entered Vietnam in early June and were detained on Friday, shortly after launching their local operation. Data retrieved from their seized equipment revealed that the syndicate had already harvested personal information from approximately 25,000 Chinese citizens during their previous operations in Cambodia.

Cambodia has become notorious for industrial-scale scam compounds, though a recent government crackdown has likely prompted these illicit syndicates to relocate to neighboring countries.