Yamanashi and Chiba based Taiwan Taiwan scam group detection Both police cooperated 20 November at 21:56
Taiwan's police authorities have detained 18 people so far as Taiwanese scam groups have been calling for bank transfer scams in China based in Yamanashi and Chiba prefectures in Japan. This is the first time that Japanese and Taiwanese police have jointly detected a wire fraud group.
Taiwan police detained 18 people, including an unemployed man (36), the leader of a scam group, and announced that they were investigating the involvement of 16 more.
According to the police, this scam group had been calling a bank transfer scam to China based on three homes and offices in Yamanashi and Chiba prefectures around March. Leaning
The trick is to make a call based on a Chinese list purchased on the Internet, explain to the Chinese authorities that the personal information has been misused, and specify the funds in the bank account. The total damage is estimated to be over 10 million yen in Japanese yen.
The reason why he was based in Japan seems to be to escape the detection, and some of the members of the group were forced to be repatriated after being arrested and prosecuted in Japan for March, etc. On the 19th, the last three people returned from Japan and were detained by Taiwanese police authorities.
This is the first time that Japanese and Taiwanese police have jointly detected a wire fraud group.