Taiwan is now pretending to be the "Ukrainian Red Cross" fraud, asking people to pay money to "help Ukrainian refugees tide over difficulties"
[Global Network Reporter Yin Yanhui] The situation in Russia and Ukraine has attracted attention, and scammers on the island have also begun to emerge one after another. After some people pretended to be "Ukrainian officers" to defraud money, another account that pretended to be "Ukrainian Humanitarian Red Cross Society" to defraud donations appeared.
According to United News and other Taiwanese media reports on the 19th, due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees into Poland, the Taiwan Red Cross Society donated 1,700 boxes and more than 240,000 items of supplies, which will be sent to the Red Cross in Poland and other places.
However, volunteers of the Taiwan Red Cross Society recently discovered that someone fraudulently used the name of the Taiwan Red Cross Society and other logos to publicly raise funds in the name of "Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief Red Cross Society", and asked people who are interested in donating to send a private letter to the editor of the fan page, Then invite the public to join LINE (instant messaging software) friends.
After gaining trust through dialogue, the criminals immediately asked the public to transfer money.
The screenshot of the conversation shows that the scammer claimed that the relevant donations would “assist Ukrainian refugees to tide over the difficulties”, and lied that they would provide details of donations within 5 to 10 working days after receiving the donations, and also asked Taiwanese netizens who are interested in donating money to remit money to their Taiwan. account.
Wang Qingfeng, president of the Taiwan Red Cross Society, said that the Taiwan Red Cross Society has called the police to deal with the lawless people's tricks to deceive the public.
The association also called on Taiwanese people to find out the relevant information of various non-profit organizations before donating.
After the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, more than one scam occurred on the island.
According to Taiwan media reports, on March 16, there was also an incident of "Ukrainian officers courting and cheating money" on the island. A 68-year-old woman surnamed Zhuang, a 68-year-old woman in Chiayi County, Taiwan, met a man who claimed to be an officer in Ukraine on the LINE dating software. , pretended to her that she would come to Taiwan to stay with her after the war with Russia was over, but because she was currently short of money, she had to go to a bank near her home to remit NT$100,000 to the bank account. Fortunately, the staff found that there was a She called the police and did not let the woman be deceived.
Regarding the incident of taking advantage of the situation in Ukraine to defraud, some netizens on the island left a message in the Taiwan media comment area: "This is the global fraud center - what Taiwanese will do!"