Mid-Autumn Festival BBQ deposit scams are common, people are cheated after remittances

Barbecue diagram. (File photo)

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the demand for barbecues for family and friends gatherings has increased significantly. However, a fraud group has taken advantage of the holiday business opportunity and advertised as a "local barbecue food truck" to deceive people. After collecting the deposit, it evaporated, causing the public's well-planned activities to "open the skylight". There are reports all over Taipei, central and southern Taipei that people were mistreated after remitting money to make reservations, with the amount involved reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars.

According to comprehensive media reports, many victims have recently been searching for the service of home barbecue on the social platform Threads. At first glance, it turns out that they have all been defrauded. A Kaohsiung netizen revealed that he had remitted a deposit of NT$28,000 in advance to host a barbecue event for 70 people. Unexpectedly, the operator lost contact completely on the day of the event, causing the carefully prepared party to be ruined in an instant. After the post was exposed, a large number of victims responded. The amount of damage ranged from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, and the damage occurred all over Taiwan.

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Some operators even encountered fraud when organizing events, and the event with 250 people almost "opened the skylight". Fortunately, they later found a manufacturer to come to support.

A store owner who was impersonated by a fraud group responded that the in-store barbecue service had been fully booked six months ago, and he did not expect that someone would use his name to take orders. The industry has no choice but to say that they have been receiving continuous inquiries from victims in recent days, and unbearable, they have reported the case to the police.

After the news came out, it sparked heated discussions among netizens, who all said they did not expect that even festival event deposits could be defrauded. In this regard, the police remind you to be careful of "pretending to be familiar" fraud. Even if the message comes from a "relative and friend account", you should verify it with the original contact information, or call the 165 anti-fraud consultation hotline.

Large numbers of people were deceived. (Taken from Threads)

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