Kuomintang Legislator Lai Shibao pushed for the revision of the fraud prevention regulations. The five major demands require the platform to set up branches in Taiwan and strengthen AI to fight fraud.

Domestic digital fraud cases are frequent. According to statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, the total amount of fraud in Taiwan in the past two years has exceeded 160 billion. To this end, KMT legislator Lai Shibao-jin said that in the new session, he will promote the revision of the "Fraud Crime Harm Prevention Ordinance", in addition to the establishment of branches in Taiwan by responsible platforms, and plans to clarify "heavy penalties", starting from Shuangbei City, so that AI anti-fraud measures can be popularized nationwide.

Kuomintang legislator Lai Shibao-jin (24) and Taipei City Councilor Tsang Hsien-ying held a press conference to put forward five major demands in response to the frequent fraud incidents in the country. According to statistics from the National Police Agency of the Ministry of the Interior, my country's cumulative financial losses from fraud nationwide from August 2024 to last August amounted to 164.3 billion yuan, with Taipei City accounting for 55.34 billion yuan. According to Taipei City Police statistics, the proportion of fraud cases on the Meta platform increased from 15% in 2023 to 36.7% in the first half of this year (2026). The latest data from the Ministry of Digital Information and Communications shows that more than 90% of fraud messages come from the platform.

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Lai Shibao advocated that the current regulations should clearly stipulate that overseas online advertising platforms should set up branches in Taiwan to implement their responsibilities. Zeng Xianying pointed out that Article 29 of the current "Fraud and Crime Harm Prevention Ordinance" already requires overseas platforms to designate a "legal representative." The Ministry of Digital Development has also directly fined Meta accordingly, but the legal representative only Dealing with matters related to anti-fraud regulations; if Meta's advertising violates the Consumer Protection Act and other regulations, since Meta does not have a branch in Taiwan, the government lacks a channel to directly serve it. It is advocated to amend and directly stipulate that online advertising platform operators should set up a branch in Taiwan, so that the government can directly find and manage Meta.

Secondly, it advocates amending Article 39 of the law, thoroughly reviewing the Ministry of Data and Information Technology’s punishment process, and asking the Ministry of Data and Information Technology to establish the benchmark for punishment and punishment as soon as possible so that heavy penalties can be implemented; thirdly, it requires the central government to follow up on the effectiveness of AI fraud in Shuangbei. Taking the Beijing Municipal Police as an example, the results before and after the introduction of AI The efficiency of daily inspections has increased from about 10 manual comparisons to hundreds of ads per day. From February to August this year, more than 50,000 fraudulent advertisements have been removed from the shelves. At the same time, advertisers, investors and identity verification who have repeatedly violated regulations have been tracked down. Frankly speaking, only in this way can fraud be truly curbed.

Shao Shengde, general counsel of Lai Shibao's Congressional Office, said that the harm caused by fraud is not only the amount of money, but also the psychological pressure of the victims. He quoted the Ministry of Health and Welfare as saying that the 45 to 64-year-old group is the main group that commits suicide due to debt, and called on fraud victims to be included in the scope of psychological and life support, and to support their basic lives by establishing a follow-up care system for fraud victims. Finally, he called for consideration of New Taipei City's "Fraud Situation Digital Student Platform" to use AI to simulate existing and possible new fraud techniques to strengthen advance warning.