Liu Nv went to the bank to transfer money to "Tomohisa Yamashita" by Western Union, but luckily stopped the scam in time.

(provided by the police)

[Reporter Xu Guozhen/Taichung Report] "Western Union", known as the world's fastest remittance and collection operation, was used by scam groups as a money laundering channel!

On the 3rd of this month, a mature woman in Taichung City encountered a fraudulent group called Japanese idol "Tomohisa Yamashita" who used "fake dating and real fraud" tricks. Without doubt, he went to the bank to transfer money to the other party through the above-mentioned method. Fortunately, the operator's phone The police felt that there was something wrong, and notified the police to arrive in time to stop the fraud.

It is understood that the so-called "Western Union Remittance" is a "real-time online remittance" service that is cooperated with other banks around the world through Western Union (Bank) of the United States. Because of this remittance mode, both the remittance and the recipient do not need to open a bank account. After the formalities are completed, the computer will generate a set of ten-digit verification passwords. The remitter will inform the payee of the password, and the receiver can receive the money. Since the funds cannot be frozen or blocked, criminals are not afraid that the police will follow the account Or riders come to your door.

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On the same day, the Liren Office of the Second Branch of Taichung City received a call from the Taichung Branch of Jingcheng Bank, saying that a woman surnamed Liu wanted to transfer US$500 to a netizen by Western Union at the counter. Abnormal records, suspected of fraud, the police officer Dai Boyang immediately came to the scene to understand, Ms. Liu said that because a netizen asked her to handle "opening money flow" and other services, she needed help remitting money to a designated account in Italy before she went to the bank to handle it.

Dai inspected the conversation records on Ms. Liu’s mobile phone on the spot, and found that the avatar of the netizen that Ms. Liu claimed was a photo of the well-known Japanese artist “Tomohisa Yamashita”. Ms. Liu said that the netizen said that because the artist’s identity was sensitive, she had a portrait rights package, so she used an IG account to communicate with her. She was chatting, unable to make a video call, and told Ms. Liu that if she was willing to send money to help with the cash flow, she would give many gifts in return.

The police immediately knew that it was a common online dating scam, and repeatedly declared to Ms. Liu that the netizen who claimed to be "Tomohisa Yamashita" was 100% fake. After the police and the staff tried their best and patiently persuaded her, Ms. Liu gave up the idea of ​​remittances and kept her hard-earned money. .

Chen Jiaming of the Second Sub-bureau said that the new year is approaching, and fraudulent groups are full of tricks. He reminds the public that there are many traps in making friends online, and they must carefully check and respond rationally. If you have any questions, you can call the 165 anti-fraud hotline or 110 to seek help from the police. The police will also use volunteers and other people's resources to strengthen the publicity of new anti-fraud knowledge at mobile police stations and various activities and gathering places.

A screenshot of the conversation between Ms. Liu and the fraudulent group pretending to be "Tomohisa Yamashita".

(provided by the police)