Drink shops in southern Vietnam denounce foreigner for fraud via minor transactions
Monday, May 27, 2024, 11:58 GMT+7
Multiple drink shops in Vung Tau City of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam have shared images and videos to expose a foreigner who engaged in fraudulent behavior by intentionally causing confusion during minor transactions.
Hanh, an employee at a beverage shop on Vo Truong Toan Street in Vung Tau City, said a foreigner swindled her out of VND470,000 (US$18.4).
She narrated that the foreigner entered her shop to ask for a bottle of beer priced at VND30,000 ($1.2) and gave her a VND500,000 ($19.6) banknote at 4:30 pm on Thursday last week.
She gave the customer the beer and VND470,000 as change.
However, the customer later spoke in a foreign language and asked for another bottle of beer.
Although he did not pay for the second beer bottle, he asked for change.
Hanh became confused and gave the foreigner another VND470,000.
When she realized that there was something wrong, the foreigner had already left the scene.
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| A screenshot from camera footage shows an employee at a shop in Vung Tau City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province giving the foreigner a VND500,000 ($19.6) banknote. |
At 9:55 pm on the same day, the foreigner conned another drink shop on Trung Nhi Street in Vung Tau City out of VND463,000 ($18.1).
The shop owner said the customer asked for a glass of strawberry tea and gave his employee a VND500,000 banknote.
The customer later pointed wildly at the menu and did not want to buy the tea anymore.
The employee had to return him the VND500,000 banknote.
After taking back the banknote, the customer said he changed his mind and wanted to buy the drink.
The shop’s employee gave the foreigner VND463,000 as change, but he had not received any money from the foreigner.
Many other vendors in Vung Tau have also faced scams by this foreigner.
The foreigner seemed to target shops with only one sales employee.
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| The foreigner swindles a vendor while his friend is waiting for him in Vung Tau City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam. |
Camera footage at these shops showed that the customer went with another foreigner who waited for his friend on a motorbike outside the shops.
Previously, local police had pressed charges against an Iranian individual for fraudulently exchanging foreign banknotes for Vietnamese banknotes, said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Luyen, head of the Vung Tau City Police.
Luyen affirmed that police would strictly handle fraud cases in line with the law.
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