The High Prosecutor's Office held a press conference at the Ministry of Justice on the 14th, attended by Prosecutor Wu Huilan of the High Prosecutor's Office, Zhang Wenfang, Prosecutor of the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office, Zhang Douhui, Chief Prosecutor of the High Prosecutor's Office, Cai Qingxiang, Minister of Justice, and Wang Wencheng, Prosecutor of the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office , Taichung District Prosecutor's Office Prosecutor Zhang Fujun, Zhang Fujun's wife (from right to left).

(Photo by reporter Qian Lizhong)

[Reporter Wu Zhengfeng/Taipei Report] Fraud groups not only use Facebook to publish fraudulent advertisements, but also recently published fake recruitment advertisements to lure job seekers to come to their homes and put them under house arrest in order to obtain head accounts.

In order to reduce the chances of the public being deceived, the prosecutors contacted Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to request that it be taken off the shelves. Prosecutor Wu Huilan pointed out on the 14th that Facebook had been notified by us and had deleted 583 fraudulent pages. In addition, within six months of our country’s 2.2 billion yuan in criminal proceeds has been deducted from the fraud.

Wu Huilan said that after the Executive Yuan approved and approved the "New Generation Anti-Fraud Strategy Action Plan", the prosecution coordinated with the police and investigation agencies to carry out 7 waves of investigations and arrests simultaneously from June 1 to November 30. During the same period, the number of seizures increased by 73.07% compared to the same period, and more than NT$2.2 billion in criminal proceeds was deducted.

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Wu Huilan pointed out that it included two waves of pre-election investigations in response to the nine-in-one project to investigate illegal financial flows. The first wave was launched from September 5th to 15th. A total of 112 cases were investigated and 449 people were involved. 25 people were detained for other crimes, 84 people were put on bail, and about 507.67 million yuan of criminal proceeds were seized.

In the second wave, from October 24th to November 9th, 135 crimes such as underground exchange, fraudulent syndicates, election gambling and virtual currency were investigated and arrested. A total of 447 people were involved. 38 people, 93 people on bail, and about 600 million yuan in criminal proceeds were seized, and another 6,525,060 TEDA coins (about 200 million yuan) in virtual currency were seized.

In response to the recent incident of job hunting fraud and imprisonment that is hated by the Chinese people, Wu Huilan explained that as of December 12, the procuratorate has investigated 59 cases, with a total of 265 defendants, 88 people in custody, 265 victims, and a total of 23.468 million criminal proceeds seized. In addition, as of December 12, 2011, the procuratorate had investigated and dealt with 413 cases involving human trafficking, with 855 defendants, 96 people in custody, and 764 victims in total. The total income is 1.609 million yuan.

Wu Huilan emphasized that from August 17th, the High Prosecutor's Office and the Criminal Bureau will publish the websites of individual and community fan pages that sell accounts, recruit drivers, and lure Chinese people overseas to engage in telecommunications fraud work, and notify social network media platforms (mainly (Facebook) to review and delete 583 fan pages to prevent abuse, captivity or human trafficking for job scams.

The social network media platform also independently deleted more than 6,000 similar illegal fan pages around the world based on the website content provided by the prosecutors and police, using keywords and big data to reduce the risk of Chinese people being deceived and killed.

Chief Prosecutor Zhang Douhui of the Higher Prosecutor’s Office said that if it is found that the administrative side has sophisticated strategies to prevent telecom fraud during the investigation of a case, the Higher Prosecutor’s Office will convene a meeting with the prosecutors and the police to discuss and discuss with the competent administrative agency and private industry in advance If necessary, please send a letter to the Ministry of Justice to convene an inter-departmental meeting to facilitate comprehensive cooperation between the judiciary, the administration, and the public and private sectors, and jointly crack down on telecommunications and network fraud crimes.

Zhang Douhui pointed out that since June, the High Procuratorate has successively aimed at "strengthening the identity verification procedures (KYC) of banks and third-party payment operators", "strengthening the administrative supervision of game point operators", "strengthening the supervision of online bank account opening and agreed transfers" ", "One-page fraud harm reduction", "Investigation of e-commerce personal information leakage and information security maintenance", "Illegal use of electronic payment accounts by fraudulent groups", "Virtual currency transaction data retrieval and investigation Prosecutors and police investigation meetings were held to discuss many specific improvements on issues such as deduction and freezing", "Development of deceiving Chinese people to engage in telecommunications and network fraud involving human trafficking", and "Policy of investigation and investigation of cases of fraud and abuse in job applicants".

Minister of Justice Cai Qingxiang affirmed the efforts of the prosecutors and police in cracking down on fraud, and said that the law enforcement agencies not only cracked down on fraud, but also wiped out gangs. He has asked Chief Prosecutor Xing Taizhao to take stock of organized crime and other cases; in addition, he also asked the Director of Investigation Wang Junli continued to sweep up underground exchanges, in addition to maintaining financial order, he also wanted to reduce the chance of foreign funds illegally invading our country.

Prosecutor Wang Wencheng (left) of the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office receives praise from Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (right).

(Photo by reporter Qian Lizhong)

Prosecutor Zhang Wenfang (left) of the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office receives praise from Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (right).

(Photo by reporter Qian Lizhong)

Prosecutor Zhang Fujun (left) of the Taichung District Prosecutor's Office receives praise from Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (right).

(Photo by reporter Qian Lizhong)