According to Haiwai.com citing Taiwanese media reports today (6th), the Kaohsiung City Criminal Police Brigade in Taiwan, together with police forces from various parties, destroyed a fraud syndicate on November 28th. Nine people including a man surnamed Ding were arrested.
The 31-year-old man surnamed Ding, the leader of the fraud group, and his accomplice, a 29-year-old man surnamed Yang, recruited 7 people including a 28-year-old man surnamed Xu through the Internet with high salaries, and put them under house arrest in a homestay to engage in fraud. After receiving the report, Kaohsiung police locked down the group's stronghold and arrested 9 people.
According to the self-made handbook of the man surnamed Ding, the fraud group specifically selected the middle-aged and elderly people in the mainland, and used the method of "fake prosecutors" to defraud, and got nearly 30 million NT dollars (approximately RMB 6.84 million) in just one month. A total of hundreds of mainland Chinese were deceived.
A man surnamed Ding and a man surnamed Yang took a fancy to the low occupancy rate in the off-season of tourism, and rented it from a homestay operator at a high rent of NT$300,000 per month. At the same time, a man surnamed Yang offered a salary of NT$30,000 plus a 3% commission on the Internet to attract 7 people including a man surnamed Xu to apply for the job. The documents were confiscated. In order to facilitate control and prevent them from escaping, the door of the homestay was locked and surveillance cameras were installed.
This fraud group uses "one-stop" modus operandi. In the first step, the fraudulent group will use communication software such as Skype, , WeChat, , etc. to contact middle-aged and elderly people in the mainland, and deceive them by means of arrears of telecom bills, etc., falsely claiming that the accounts of the deceived people are suspected of being fraudulently used; in the second step, the fraudulent group will pretend to be The public security, falsely claiming that the victim is involved in illegal activities such as money laundering; in the last step, the fraud group will act as a member of the procuratorate, and make a fake court document to the victim, saying that the account needs to be supervised. Once the victim believes it is true, he will follow the instructions to withdraw the deposit and transfer it to the account designated by the fraud group.
In order to avoid police investigation, the man surnamed Ding changed the location of the computer room every month, and deliberately locked the unknown members in the same room to work separately, and the man surnamed Yang managed it.
After receiving the report in November, the Kaohsiung City Criminal Police Brigade, after many days of investigation, identified the hiding place of the syndicate, and caught up with the fraudulent syndicate on the morning of November 28 when the man surnamed Ding moved his position. One of the suspects was a 17-year-old boy who claimed to be a fraud after he applied for the job, but was placed under house arrest when he wanted to leave.