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”
Tuoi Tre
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