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Teacher Wang, Po-Chi accepted an interview with ETtoday News Cloud:Taiwan Fraud Investigation Report
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2023/4/10
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The female student of Jingyi University was controlled by a fraud group because her boyfriend became a "pig" in Myanmar. She flew to Myanmar alone. She has contacted her family, but she does not want to return to Taiwan. Last year, many Taiwanese were lured to Cambodia as "piglets" to restrict their freedom due to job hunting fraud. In the past 20 years, the types of fraud have continued to update, with victims and amounts skyrocketing. According to the Criminal Bureau Statistics Bureau, the total amount of fraud in Taiwan in 2022 is approaching 7 billion. Many people "sit at home, fraud comes from the sky", and phone calls, text messages, and evolution to the internet can all be scams. They go to supermarkets to get fake packages, want to have a romantic relationship, and the other party is a fraud group that steals photos to deceive relationships, Dongsen New Media ETtoday sorted out the evolution of Taiwan fraud in the past 20 years, and the changes in the methods and amounts of various types of fraud. For the next six consecutive weeks, we talked about fraud from different aspects every day, including events, the police, the legal community, the victims and scholars, so that readers can read the "Taiwan Fraud Investigation Report".
Amazon CEO Bezos once said that intelligence is a gift, kindness is a choice, and in the multiverse of fraud, scam groups use their own "intelligence" to deceive others' "kindness". Wang, Po-Chi, an associate professor at the Department of Criminal Justice of Ming Chuan University mentioned that Taiwan was first known for the Golden Light Party scam, where criminals were suspected of scamming on the streets, using counterfeit banknotes, gold bars, gold chains, and other means to obtain money from the public. With the progress of the times and technology, after entering the era of telecommunications, fraud has moved from the streets to the telephone, physical entities to the telephone, and home phones have become one of the channels of fraud.
Before 2000, most cases of fraud in Taiwan were related to the Golden Light Party's fraud and illegal gold drawing techniques. In 2001, lottery fraud broke out, surpassing illegal gold drawing. In 2002, fake stock buying and selling fraud emerged. Starting in 2003, organized cross-border fraud groups formed, and drivers, headcount accounts, and phone numbers began to "expand" their operations. The techniques began to follow current events, with the emergence of fake SMS payment fraud. The following year, the 165 Anti Fraud Consultation Line was established, The real scam of kidnappings during the same year's vacation has become rampant. In 2005, credit card fraud and email fraud emerged. In order to prevent more technological fraud, the Criminal Bureau established the "Technology Crime Prevention and Control Center" in 2006. It is remarkable that the same year, fake police fraud also began.
In 2007, fake online auction fraud began, and in the same year, fake bank credit fraud also occurred. In 2008, the lifting of installment payments also occurred. Taipei District Prosecutors' Office prosecutor Jiang Changzhi was still teaching, but he had already received a phone call for installment payment fraud and was almost deceived. In 2009, there was a fake dating and love scam. Originally thought it was a happy online romance, but the other party was a scam group that attempted to steal their identity. The scam not only involved relationships but also money. Since 2010, people have been receiving calls to "guess who I am", thinking they were friends they haven't contacted for a long time, and scamming them on the grounds of insufficient cash, such as hospitalization or urgent need to buy a house.
In 2011, with the prevalence of instant messaging, fraud also emerged. In 2012, fake tax refund fraud emerged. In 2013, with the increase of Facebook users, Facebook shopping fraud also followed. In 2014, with the popularization of LINE, fraud changed the channel. In June of the same year, the Legislative Yuan amended Article 339-4 of the Criminal Law (aggravating the crime of fraud). If anyone fraudulently uses government agencies or through the Internet or other means, they can be sentenced to imprisonment of not less than 1 year but not more than 7 years, And impose a fine of no more than 1 million yuan; In 2015, the Criminal Law was amended to include one crime, one punishment, and increased the punishment level for repeat fraudsters. In the same year, small SMS scams began to spread to people's mobile phones.
In 2016, there was an urgent scam of impersonating relatives and friends, with the phone pretending to be relatives and friends. Upon hearing this, the kind-hearted public softened their hearts and the money they transferred out could never be returned. In 2017, the Ministry of Justice revised the "Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Organized Crime", changing the mandatory requirements for criminal organizations to "structured organizations with continuity or profitability". This means that the mastermind of a fraud group can also be tried on the charge of organized crime. In this way, the mastermind can be sentenced to up to 10 years. In the same year, the method of calling the public to terminate installment payments at ATMs began.
In 2018, with the popularity of Facebook, fake online photos began to appear. The following year, fake online photos turned into stealing celebrity photos and opening accounts to sell fake products. In 2020, cases of e-commerce members' personal information being stolen reappeared, and the Criminal Bureau periodically released high-risk store information, reminding the public to be careful that member information in these stores would become the target of fraudulent groups.
In 2021 and 2022, there were more one page online shopping scams, including Yu Meiren, HSIEH,CHIN-HE,LAN,HSIN-MEI,HSIAO-CHEN,and others. The scam groups used all the objects they could steal. Following the current events, the fraud group updated its scripts and topics. In 2022, it will send a newsletter that can get 50000 yuan for a diagnosis issued by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which will make 165 special lines for anti fraud consultation broken. The number of daily consultation calls is 2000 to 3000. At that time, many colleagues cross groups to help answer the phone. In 2022, the number of Cambodian Human Snake Group lured by work will reach a peak, and will be taken seriously.
According to the information provided by the Police Department, the most common scam for people over 50 years old is the "guess who I am" scam, while those under 50 years old are investment scams. Men were also deceived mainly through investment fraud, accounting for 23.06%, while women were relieved of installment payments, accounting for 22.36%.
According to the data provided by the Criminal Bureau, the amount of investment fraud has grown rapidly since 2020, breaking through 1 billion in 2020, 2 billion in 2021, and 3.4 billion in 2022, almost increasing at a rate of 1 billion a year.
In addition, looking at the fraud cases and total financial loss data of the past 7 years, it is found that before 2020, the number of fraud cases fell between 22000 and 23000, but by 2021, it approached 25000. By 2022, the number of fraud cases had skyrocketed to 29000, nearly 30000, indicating rapid growth.
Dongsen New Media ETtoday sorted out six fraud techniques. In the first week, it focused on "one page fraud". It interviewed the name of the victim, YU,MEI-JEN, the host, Qiu Qinyi, a financial expert, and HSIEH,CHIN-HE, the chairman of Caixun Media, who had been opened an unlimited number of "fake HSIEH,CHIN-HE" accounts to talk about their troubles, as well as YING-CHEN, a lawyer who was also killed. From the perspective of lawyers, they talked about how to face the rampant "fake accounts", We also analyzed how to distinguish "fake one page online shopping". In addition, we approached Taiwan's Google, LINE, Facebook, Fact Checking Center, and Legal Department to discuss the phenomenon and resolve the issue.
Starting from the second week, we will discuss weekly topics such as "personal theft fraud", "package fraud", "job fraud", "termination of installment payment fraud", and "telecommunications investment fraud" to explore the changes and responses to fraud in Taiwan from various perspectives. Wang, Po-Chi, an associate professor at the Department of Criminal Justice of Ming Chuan University mentioned that fraud techniques are constantly changing around people's "desires" and "fears". When faced with these desires and fears, people want to fall in love, make quick money, get a high paying job, face the fear of fake prosecutors, and the fear of family members urgently using money to treat illnesses. When scam groups realize that "fraud" can obtain a large amount of wealth, how to prevent it has become the biggest test in Taiwan. Wang, Po-Chi described the current regulations in Taiwan as "riding UBike to catch up with high-speed rail", and it is urgent for the government to achieve horizontal communication integration and jointly plan a fraud prevention safety net.
On April 10, 2023, Minister of the Interior LIN,YU-CHANG mentioned that in order to solve the problem of fraud, it is not only necessary to conduct backend inspections, but also more important to manage the source of the front-end, which is to conduct front-end management on social media platforms. Many scams utilize the anonymity characteristics of the internet and technological techniques, making it difficult to conduct inspections. Therefore, in the future, including investment and job advertisements, efforts should be made towards real name systems.
In order to increase the relevant criminal liability and punishment, LIN,YU-CHANG advocates that in the past, people believed that fraud was a minor offense, but in the future, it will not be. In the future, fraud will be a key dialogue that the government will crack down on, comprehensively improving fraud related crimes, including mastermind, collaborative crime, and (bank) account providers.
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