Selling a cheated game account of 3 million, gamers “quickly” send scammers another 3 million to report it

As is known the current situation cheat, or more specifically, phone scams, over the Internet are very common. Although people have been warned many times, the scammers with increasingly sophisticated tricks still easily make many people hooked. Asking for help from the police is the most effective way to catch criminals and get back the lost money, but what to do in cases where the money is not large?

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Recently, an online scam is attracting the attention of a large number of Chinese netizens. A male gamer surnamed Zhang living in Xuzhou city, Jiangsu province, China was scammed 1000 yuan (about 3.4 million dong) while selling Game Account mine. After discovering the “unfortunate million”, unlike many people’s speculation, Mr. Truong transferred another 1000 yuan to the scammer, which made many netizens feel confused.

According to Mr. Truong’s share, at that time, someone actively contacted him to buy his game account. The buyer gave him a link, saying it was a trading platform, both sides need to deposit 1000 yuan as a deposit to continue trading. At first, Mr. Zhang did not suspect, but immediately followed, depositing 1000 yuan into the platform at the request of the other party, then he felt unusual and discovered that he had been cheated.​

The scammer actively texted and asked to buy Mr. Truong’s game account

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After searching online, Mr. Truong knew that according to the law, the amount of money for fraud must be from 2000 yuan (about 7 million) or more before the police set up a fraud case. However, Mr. Zhang only loaded 1000 yuan into the other platform, so he continued to transfer another 1000 yuan to the other party before reporting to the police. Truong’s actions could not help but make many people laugh and cry, it is still unknown if the police found the scammer and got his money back. Through this, we also want to remind gamers to be careful with account transactions, especially online transactions like this.​