Currently, fraud on social networking sites is becoming more and more sophisticated and complicated in many different forms, typically including fraud from closed "health consulting" groups. This behavior not only causes people to lose property but more dangerously affects their health because of the risk of using fake drugs or drugs of unknown origin.
Accordingly, Ms. DNL (55 years old, Ho Chi Minh City) has had a long-term bone and joint disease, so she joined some closed health consultation groups to exchange and share experiences about her disease. Recently, the group posted some advertisements for oriental medicine products, promising 100% effectiveness.
Seeing that there was a promotion, she bought it and it was sent to her right away. When she received the product, she noticed that the medicine was a bit different, so she went to the clinic to ask the doctor, who advised her that this medicine was not for treating arthritis at all.
Subjects take advantage of groups to sell drugs of unknown origin to sick people. (Illustration photo)
The common method of the above subjects is to create fanpages, groups on social networks or make phone calls to attract victims to join. Initially, the subjects invite them to join the groups and then call to advise them on buying oriental medicine to treat their illnesses with attractive promotions, such as free use of medicine for 5 years and insurance reimbursement of 80% of the cost of the medicine used for treatment.
Here, the subjects will share and exchange information and video clips using images of doctors and medical staff to describe advice and instructions on how to use foods or describe the uses of foods like a real experience or living witness of someone who has suffered from the disease to increase persuasiveness.
With a long-term illness that did not go away and attractive online invitations, these victims were scammed out of millions of dong. After receiving the money, the scammer immediately lost contact.
Faced with the above scams, the Department of Information Security ( Ministry of Information and Communications ) recommends that people be extremely cautious with medical examination and treatment services and drug sales on social networks. Before using medical examination and treatment services, carefully check information about doctors and medical facilities, verify through the websites of reputable medical agencies or from reliable sources.
If you need medical examination and treatment, go to reputable hospitals or medical facilities licensed by the authorities to ensure safety. In addition, people should only use reputable online medical examination and treatment platforms that are licensed and have a clear doctor identity verification system.
In case of suspicion of being scammed, people need to immediately report to the authorities or consumer protection organizations for timely support, resolution and prevention.
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