"Captain of the Punishment Brigade" is under surveillance! Malicious wrong password fraud, wife started video reporting for 2 days in a row to report her whereabouts

Lin, accompanied by her husband, went to the police station for help. (provided by the public)

A 36-year-old wife surnamed Lin in Taichung City received a call from a fake digital currency department and criminal police. She was monitored by a fraud group for two consecutive days. She turned on the camera four times a day to report her whereabouts. She was even tricked into thinking that her bank account had been frozen by the judicial authorities. Fortunately, her husband noticed something strange and accompanied the police to the police. The police exposed the scam in time and saved more than 700,000 yuan in savings in the account.

Ms. Lin said that she received a call from someone claiming to be the "Digital Development Department" two days ago, alleging that her personal information had been fraudulently used to apply for a phone number and was even involved in a criminal case. She then transferred the call to a man who claimed to be "Captain of the Criminal Brigade" and asked her to create a transcript online and warned that her bank account was about to be controlled.

Ms. Lin was afraid of getting into a lawsuit and did not dare to disobey the other party's instructions. Unexpectedly, when she tried to log in to online banking, she found that her account was actually locked. The fraudster then resorted to "video surveillance" techniques, requiring that the video be turned on at four fixed times a day and her location reported at any time. They also repeatedly warned not to disclose the case to family, relatives and friends.

Ms. Lin complied with the instructions for two consecutive days, and her life seemed to be controlled remotely. It was not until her husband noticed that she looked uneasy and behaved abnormally that he accompanied her to the Lide Office of the Third Branch for verification. Police officers Liu Jiazhu and Wu Yuxin told her face to face: "This is a fraud." They further assisted in contacting the bank for verification, and then exposed the trap set by the fraud group.

It turned out that Ms. Lin’s online banking was not frozen by the judicial authorities at all. Instead, the fraudster deliberately entered an incorrect password to temporarily lock the account, and then used this opportunity to create the illusion that the account was under judicial control, convincing the victim. Moreover, Ms. Lin had previously provided the last 4 digits of her credit card to the other party, and later discovered two unfamiliar transactions on her bill, which made her worried that the account had been stolen.

Fortunately, the police accompanied her to check her items one by one, confirming that they were all consumed by her and that no property was lost. This confirmed that the fraud group indeed used regular video to track her whereabouts, and then helped close the reminder and block the fraud contact information to stop the fraud.