Google, Vietnamese agency launch website against cyber scams
The website, Dauhieuluadao.com, provides typical fraud situations and helps people recognize popular fraud methods in Vietnam and around the world, according to a joint press release by Google and NCSC on Friday.
It also offers three ‘golden rules’ for everybody to apply to dealing with potential cyber scams.
The site banks on Scamspotter.org, a joint project between Google and the U.S. Cybercrime Support Network.
The website has been integrated by NCSC into the National Cyberspace Portal at https://congcu.khonggianmang.vn/dauhieuluadao/ for easy use and look-up when needed.
In Vietnam, online fraud has become complicated with increasing losses in the past few years, from scratch cards, bank account transfer to huge online investment scams.
Online swindles have increased remarkably along with COVID-19 outbreaks that began to hit Vietnam in early 2020, said NCSC.
“In 2021 only, more than 1,000 websites that committed fraudulent acts by posing themselves as banks or financial institutions were prevented and handled,” the agency said.
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