Scam dialogue between the victim and the gangster.

(Photographed by reporter Yao Yuehong)

[Reporter Yao Yuehong/Taipei Report] Under the influence of the epidemic, the stay-at-home economy has become the mainstream. More and more people use their mobile phones to play online games. Fraud groups are also hitching a ride and defrauding online game points and virtual treasures. According to police statistics From this year to November 27, 608 cases of this type of fraud occurred, an increase of more than 20% compared with the 492 cases in the same period last year, and 80% of the victims were aged between 20 and 49. The number of victims over the age of 20 has also increased by more than 10%. Parents must pay more attention to the Internet situation of their children at home.

A woman surnamed Li in the central region was contacted by the police, claiming that her account had been warned. Li was very surprised and said that the account was usually used by her daughter who was still in high school. After asking, she learned that her daughter was a part-time online game storage and purchase agent. Virtual treasures, etc. to earn the price difference.

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Li Nv’s daughter said that in August this year, some netizens saw her advertisement for storage on Facebook, contacted her actively and expressed their desire to trade game coins worth NT$100,000, and asked to trade on the game trading platform. The game trading platform guarantees that there is no doubt about him, so he trades on the platform. At that time, the bank account did have transaction funds. Unexpectedly, my mother received a notice that the bank account was warned a few days later.

The police learned that it turned out that some netizens sold game coins to innocent buyers, and asked the innocent buyers to remit money to Li Nv’s account. After Li Nv’s daughter confirmed that she had received the money, she paid the game coins as agreed. Unexpectedly, the recipient of the payment was Fraud group, not only did she not get the transaction money and lost the game currency, but all her mother's accounts were warned. This is a typical third-party fraud.

There is also a man surnamed Chen from the northern region who usually has the habit of playing Gongdou-themed mobile games. After long-term "practice", the value of the level and game points stored in the account is about 35,000 yuan. The account was sold for 30,000 yuan, and the buyer contacted him within a day.

At the beginning, Chen Nan wanted to do things cheaply, so he only provided his bank account number and asked the buyer to remit the money directly. The buyer proposed to trade on the game trading platform because he was worried about being cheated, and provided the game trading platform URL intimately.

Unexpectedly, the third-party trading platform that the buyer called made Chen Nan fall into the trap of fraud step by step.

Chen Nan cooperates with the buyer to open an account on the trading platform, enters the account number and password of the game to be sold, and then the platform interface shows that the transaction is successful, confirming that the money has been credited. Unexpectedly, when Chen Nan wanted to withdraw cash, the platform customer service notified Chen Nan to register The bank account number provided at the time was wrong, so the trading platform account was frozen and could not be withdrawn.

In order to unfreeze the platform account, Chen Nan remitted the same transaction amount of 30,000 yuan to the official "stored value account" according to the instructions of the customer service staff.

Unexpectedly, before the account was unfrozen, the website displayed a transaction error again, and the account was frozen again. When I asked the customer service, Chen Nan entered the wrong transaction amount. The second error required four times the account amount to be unfrozen. Chen Nan hurriedly remitted NT$240,000 The system shows that at 12:00 noon the next day, the money will be allocated to Chen Nan’s designated account. After Chen Nan verified that the money was not in the account, and he could not contact the customer service, he realized that he had been cheated.