The fraud group uses AI voice robots to screen people who may take the bait, and then sends fraudulent text messages.

(Photographed by reporter Qiu Junfu)

[Reporter Qiu Junfu/Taipei Report] The financial service industry has launched "AI voice robots" to greatly improve service efficiency. Unexpectedly, they were also targeted by scammers. First make random phone calls, use AI voice robots to screen people who may be hooked, and then send fraudulent text messages to increase the success rate of fraud. Forty victims reported the crime, with a cumulative loss of 100 million yuan, including one in his 60s. Women were defrauded up to 23 million yuan; the second team of the No. 9 Investigation Team of the Criminal Bureau arrested Huang Nan and other two suspects. It is estimated that the crime was committed from the beginning of the year to August, and more than 6 million text messages were sent every month, and the value was stored in the telecommunications company. The text message fee is as high as 100 million yuan, and the police have frozen the remaining stored value of more than 9 million yuan.

This is the first time that the police have uncovered a crime committed by a fraud group combined with an AI voice robot.

Sending 6 million text messages a month, the bait woman was cheated of 23 million

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According to the police investigation, the group established an investment consulting company in Kaohsiung in January this year. In addition to obtaining hundreds of telecom numbers from Asia Pacific Telecom, and applying for a large number of corporate SMS services, it was entrusted by five fake investment stock groups in Southeast Asia to send fraudulent SMS.

The group also purchased a package service from a technology company that develops AI voice robots to assist in the production of AI voices that resemble real people. SMS to increase fraud efficiency.

After the public took the bait, the computer room of the fraudulent group lured the public to download the special APP, using investment profits as bait, and advocating more investment to defraud.

During the investigation by the police, Asia Pacific Telecom found out that there was a discrepancy, and actively blocked the group's number 155 from sending messages, freezing only the remaining stored value of more than 9 million yuan.

In September of this year, the police carried out a search, arrested Huang and Su, and confiscated stolen evidence such as mobile phones, company seals, voice speech scripts, and background fraud SMS electromagnetic records. The behind-the-scenes benefactor who fled to Cambodia.