The police busted the fraud syndicate and seized a large number of stolen evidence such as computer hosts, laptops, modem pools of SMS automatic transceivers, phone cards, bankbooks, and debit cards. (Photo by reporter Qiu Junfu)
Fraudulent syndicates are rampant, and one of the main tools for defrauding people is "people's phone numbers." In order to defraud people's phone numbers, they use fake loan advertisements, and even cooperate with illegal telecommunications banks. Analysis of the account found that in the past few months, "fake dating" has been the most common, accounting for 22%. They usually use images of handsome foreign guys and beautiful women to lure people into falling in love, and then pretend to want to travel or settle in Taiwan, and ask for a SIM card or eSIM When QRcode is used in Taiwan, it is easy to obtain a person's phone number. Victims often only learn of being deceived when the police notify them of a fraud case and they become an accomplice in helping the fraud.
The Fraud Crime Prevention Center stated that after fraud groups used various methods such as online advertising and online dating to defraud people and get their house numbers, they used to use "Modem" (Modem) to defraud people. Pool) and other SMS collection computer room equipment, send a large number of fraudulent SMS or advertisements, and have recently been used in Internet telephone exchanges to make fraudulent calls with no displayed numbers. In order to prevent the problem of the proliferation of personal phone numbers, in cooperation with various telecommunications companies, in addition to strengthening the application for mobile phone phone numbers, the identity verification mechanism of dual IDs has also limited the number of phone number applications. Currently, each telecommunications company can only apply for 2 phone numbers per person.
From January to April this year, after checking the phone numbers of 86 cases, it was found that 19 of them were "fake friends", accounting for 22%, which is the most common case. Therefore, various telecommunications companies have been asked to send relevant anti-fraud promotional text messages to remind the public to be careful when making friends and pay attention to the scammers' words to avoid becoming innocent victims.
In the case, a woman in her 50s from Taipei City met a Hong Kong man on Facebook in September last year. The two chatted on LINE. Afterwards, the relationship between the two quickly warmed up after the other person greeted him. The next month, the man expressed his intention to immigrate to Taiwan and asked the woman to apply for a prepaid card number for him to use when he came to Taiwan. She also asked if she could help him get two card numbers for his father. The woman followed the other party's instructions to apply for two phone numbers, and then sent one of them to 7-11 to sell goods. Soon the other party pointed out that there was something wrong with the phone number that was sent and asked the woman to give another phone number. At this time, the woman became alert and deleted the contact information of both parties. It was not until the police notified the case at the end of the year that she realized that the phone number she delivered had become a fraudulent phone number.
Another 50-year-old man in New Taipei City met a Vietnamese woman on TikTok at the end of last year. He was attracted by the pictures of beautiful women posted by her. They both added each other as Line friends. After chatting for a while, the woman asked the man to apply for a visa on the grounds that she wanted to settle in Taiwan. After being given a mobile phone number for use, the man then sent a SIM card with a seldom-used phone number to the other party via 7-11 as instructed. After that, the two parties rarely contacted each other. In February this year, the man was also informed by the police that he had been deceived.
☆The Liberty Times e-newsletter reminds you that the anti-fraud hotline: 165 and the crime reporting hotline: 110☆
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