A 70-year-old woman in Taichung was brainwashed into believing that she was making fake investments. She spent 78 million on it and still didn’t wake up. Her family took her to the police station to stop the loss.

"The teachers in the group will not lie to me!" A 70-year-old woman in Taichung mistakenly believed that fake investments were defrauded and brainwashed her, and she spent 7 to 8 million yuan. Although the police once arrested a driver, she was still convinced that there was a profit of tens of millions of dollars on the account, and she was even prepared to pay another deposit. It was not until her family took her to the branch for help, and the police assisted her in applying for a high-risk warning for real estate under her name from the Land Office, that she finally stopped the money transfer.

Taichung City Third Branch Deputy Chief Cheng Youming was recently invited to a police broadcast to share this case. He pointed out that the woman began to receive fake investment information in September last year, and was guided by the "teacher" in the group to invest large sums of money one after another. It was not until the police followed the lead and arrested a driver that the woman did not fully wake up. In the first half of this year, the woman saw that the "profit" on the investment platform had accumulated to tens of millions of dollars, and she was convinced that as long as she paid another deposit, she could get all the principal and profits back.

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The family noticed that something was wrong and had to take her to the branch after repeated attempts to persuade her. The police specifically looked for fake investment cases from the 165 platform and explained to her one by one how the fraud group used small profits to build trust, and then continued to induce the victim to add funds through book profits, blocked withdrawals and requiring deposits. However, the woman still believed that the "teacher" she met was different from other fraud cases.

Zheng Youming pointed out that the most difficult thing about this type of fraud is not that the victim has not received the warning, but that the fraud group has already brainwashed the victim through long-term interactions, causing the victim to trust strangers in the group. To prevent the woman from raising money to remit money again, the police not only ask her family to continue to pay attention, but also help her apply for a high-risk warning for real estate under her name with the land office, adding a line of defense from property other than funds, so that the fraud group does not let the fraud group take advantage of the "reluctance to give up the money that has been invested" and gradually increase the losses.

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