The Tuy Hoa city police in Phu Yen Province are investigating a case in which 2 foreigners stole VND15.7 million (US$750) from a local post office yesterday.
At 1 pm on Saturday, the foreigners, one of them female, came to the Nguyen Hue Post Office asking to buy a mobile phone card worth VND50,000 (US$2.4).
After paying for the card to Tran Thi Vu Diep, a post office employee, the foreign man handed Diep two VND200,000 bills and one VND100,000 bill and asked her to change them into smaller bills.
After Diep found the changes in a cash box, the man stepped inside the counter to receive the money and counted it and the woman kept asking Diep about miscellaneous things until the man stepped out of the counter.
After they left, Diep checked the cash box and found VND15.7 million was missing.
Diep told the police that the foreign woman’s questions must have distracted her from attending to the cash box.
A similar though milder case occurred in Quy Nhon city in Binh Dinh Province on the morning of the same day. 2 foreigners came to a shop to buy 2 batteries worth VND1,500 each.
One of them gave the shop’s attendant a VND500,000 bill to pay for the goods. When the attendant gave them their changes, they refused to receive the bills and went closer to the cashier inside the counter and demanded other bills.
Suspecting the customers, the attendant stopped them from entering the counter. They then ran away. A number of similar swindles by foreigners have recently occurred in Phu Yen and Binh Dinh, according to the police in these provinces.
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