Warning about fake VNG scams and how to recognize them

VNG (formerly VinaGame) is widely known to the public as the publisher of video games that have been dominating the Vietnamese market such as Gunny, Vo Lam Chi Mong, Vo Lam Truyen Ky or Fashion Star. Players often tend to deposit money into the game to serve their own needs. Many bad guys have taken advantage of this to create fake VNG websites to trick players into depositing money. So how to avoid losing money unfairly on fraudulent websites? Let's Anti-Phishing (CLD) find out in the article below.

I. Current status of VNG counterfeit fraud

Since 2013, when VNG's Zing Me social network was still popular in Vietnam, VNG has warned users about some scammers setting up websites pretending to be VNG Company's services to defraud. pickpocket or steal the user's entire account.

Up to now, as computer and phone games are increasingly developed, scams are also becoming more sophisticated, scammers continue to use many tricks to appropriate customers' assets.

1. Fake VNG card recharge page

As Garena, VNG's hot games often encourage users to deposit money to have the best game experience. Taking advantage of the psychology of wanting to top up less but receive lots of promotions, or simply taking advantage of the fact that users do not know what the official top up source is, many people have launched a series of "smuggled" or fraudulent websites to take over. seize assets as well as user accounts. In 2013, 10 years ago, VNG customers were defrauded of hundreds of millions of dong by depositing money on these fake websites.

Up to now, fake Zing Pay websites continue to pop up. Anti-Fraud, we regularly receive reports from users about websites pretending to deposit money into VNG games.

2. Fake recruitment of collaborators

In early August, VNG warned about scams impersonating VNG on online sites to recruit candidates, defraud, and entice money into accounts for the purpose of fraudulently appropriating assets. .

Specifically, the impersonator contacted the candidate and sent a job description, and invited the candidate to join a chat group on the Telegram platform for the reason of interview and capacity test. To pass the testing rounds, candidates are required to download an additional application, fill in personal information and deposit money into their account with an invitation to support the project and promise to pay a sum of money even though they are not yet employees. official.

II. Summary of fake websites listed by CLD

Currently, in Anti-Phishing database There are more than 50 fake VNG and Zing links recorded to scam and scam information.

III. Detailed instructions on how to recognize

1. Identify scams by scamadviser.com

ScamAdviser is one of the reputable websites in the world that analyzes the safety or fraud level of other websites. Use ScamAdviser to check the link "napzingspeed[.]com“.

ScamAdviser reviews here Not is a reputable website because:

You can also refer to other detailed technical reviews to understand why this site has low credibility. However, the positive highlights section also shows that DNSFilter thinks the site is safe. So if you want to test a website, you should use many different tools.

2. Identify by virustotal.com

VirusTotal is a website that combines multiple antivirus software and is an online scanning tool to check for viruses that regular antivirus software may miss. Use VirusTotal to check “napzingspeed[.]com“.

3. Identify by scam.vn

In addition, users can also check the reliability of the website by Scam.vn.

4. Identify by browser installed with security protection

Currently, some browsers have security settings to prevent and warn users when you visit unsafe websites.

Especially some browsers like Microsoft Edge, Opera and Coc Coc have built-in blacklist data from Anti-Phishing without you having to install anything.

5. Identify by website of Anti-Phishing

One of the fastest and most accurate ways to know if there are websites impersonating VNG or Zing is to visit chongluadao.vnPhishing websites are constantly updated so you can keep up with the latest information.

The steps to use Anti-Phishing to check a link are as follows:

In addition, you can enter the website link directly as in the search bar to check.

IV. Some notes and recommendations to know to avoid being scammed

1. For the trick of impersonating the card recharge page

Currently, there are many deposit and card recharge sites with many different login and payment methods. Before you perform account login or transaction at any website/app, verify if it is a reputable, official website/app to avoid account hijacking and asset.

Especially, do not trust messages/articles about terrible promotions, if such information is not posted by official communication channels.

2. Oppose the trick of impersonating collaborators

The scam of impersonating collaborators is a common trick, you can read more details about this trick here This to understand more specifically.