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Resume forgery rings uncovered

Resume forgery rings uncovered

Tuesday, September 04, 2012, 13:30 GMT+7

Many resume forgery rings have mushroomed in Ho Chi Minh City and the neighboring province of Binh Duong to meet the rising demand of those who want to legalize their personal status and identity to find a job. Those wishing to change their identities can find a taxi motorbike rider who works at an industrial park in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc District or nearby Binh Duong Province’s Di An Town.

It will take them only two days to realize their wishes for a charge of VND100,000-200,000 per fake resume profile.

The forger can even get fake resumes with changes in their native names through the relevant papers such as identity cards (ID card), health certification, temporary and permanent residence status, job applications, and qualifications.

A piece of cake

Tuoi Tre reporters followed two men role-playing as job seekers who needed urgent resumes for job applications and traveled to a mobile phone shop in Khiet Tam Market in Thu Duc District last month.

As the application deadline was imminent, they could not go home for addition papers.

Lan, the woman at the shop, first questioned the men about how they learned of her services.

After further discussion to convince them about the services, Lan asked the men where the companies they were applying to were located, inside or outside the industrial park, since there are two kinds of resumes for each area, and the one for the latter is cheaper.

After paying VND100,000 each for a resumes for the latter, they received an appointment to receive the complete resumes the following day.

As promised, one day later, they returned to the shop to get brand new and blank profiles with no more information than the signature and seal of the general hospital of Binh Duong Province on the Health Certification, and signature and seal of the temporary residence certification from authorities of Binh Chieu Ward, Thu Duc District.

A photocopy-photo shop in Song Than Industrial park in Di An Town, Hai Duong, also offered the same services.

After two young men arrived to ask for an ID card for job applications, a female employee asked to borrow their original ID cards.

"I only need to change the photo on the ID card to make a resume with all necessary stamps and seals. We can change it back once you get the job,” she added.

Before that, a young man named Hai who worked at the store had charged a man from Thanh Hoa province VND120,000 for the same service.

The new resume not only had his name changed, but also move his hometown to southern Binh Phuoc Province.

It was accompanied by all the relevant papers and documents bearing signatures and seals of a doctor at the General Hospital in Binh Duong Province and the president of the People's Committee of Tan Loi Commune, Dong Phu District, Binh Phuoc Province.

Gradual exposure

On August 17 a man who expected to receive a set of new forged documents was directed to an unnamed photocopy shop in Linh Xuan Ward in Thu Duc District. There, a man named Cuong guided him to a grocery store located on Road No. 4 to meet a woman named Lan, since he was only acting as an intermediary.

Cuong is one three or four young men working as intermediaries at the photocopy shop.

After arriving at the grocery, Lan, the owner, brought out a bunch of documents from the desk drawer and asked the man for his height and weight, in order to fill out the Health Certification. The paper bore the seal of An Dan clinic in Di An town and many signatures and fake seals of local police authorities. After handling the dossier, Lan asked the man if the photo on the ID card was his, adding that she would return the old photo once he get the job.

A woman named Thuong and her husband, Vinh, at Hoai Thuong photo shop on Road No. 4 in Linh Xuan Ward offered to do the job for VND120,000 per set. At about 9:45 am on August 21, the woman handed over a packet of documents bearing fake signatures and seals from state authorities for her customers.

They asked Thuong how she did this so quickly, and she replied that she only receives the requirement from guests before passing them on to another person.

After tracking down the “other person” following Thuong’s hint, Tuoi Tre can confirm he is a man named Que who lives at a house on Road No. 4 in Linh Xuan Ward. Peeking into this house, our correspondents found many documents and papers relating to the counterfeiting of documents for job applications.

By spending many days tracking down the whole network, we found a ring organized hierarchically with many intermediaries, mostly young men working as the collectors of information from customers at the aforementioned mobile phone, photocopy, photo and grocery shops.

After the dealers, mostly located in Linh Xuan Ward, receive the orders they transfer them to men in charge of higher levels, like Que Cuong, Hoi and the grocery owner Lan, who affix them with faux signatures, seals and documents of authority as prescribed in the job application.

Lieutenant Colonel Vo Ngoc Meo, captain of the police department for economic crime investigation of Thu Duc District, said: "These fake resumes and documents all bear indistinguishable sharp seals and signatures."

Potential risks

Upper Colonel Tran Van Tem, head of the department for most wanted criminals (PC52) under theHCMC Police Department, said the forgery of resumes and other documents in job applications contains potential risks since those who want fake profiles are possibly trying to violate the law in one way or another.

"In some situations, there are underage teenagers living away from home asking for fake resumes for job applications.”

“However, PC52 has recently arrested many wanted criminals who had changed their names through fake ID cards and temporary and permanent residence statuses in their resumes.”

“In fact many with faked resumes committed crimes and fled from their workplaces, with the most common cases being motorbike theft”

“When the police get involved, those fake documents are real obstacles for our investigations,” he added.

Tuoi Tre

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