The police seized a large number of stolen evidence, including work machines, laptops, computer hosts, hard drives, ID cards, bank cards, and passbooks, involved in the case.

(Photo by reporter Qiu Junfu)

[Reporter Qiu Junfu/Taipei Report] Yang, a member of the Tiandaomeng Sun Club, went to Cambodia in the middle of last year to receive training from fraudulent groups and returned to China. He set up a fraudulent computer room in China and used the method of stealing photos of "handsome guys" on dating software to lure women into hooking up. Then recommend the fake Amazon shopping network to lure remittances to buy gift cards. In just over two months, a total of 140 million yuan has been defrauded. So far, 20 victims have come forward to report the crime.

The second team of the Seventh Investigative Brigade of the Criminal Bureau announced the detection today, arresting 23 people including Yang.

According to the police investigation, 22-year-old Yang suspected that in the middle of last year, he took the initiative to go to Cambodia to train in a fraudulent computer room. After the actual operation, his performance reached the threshold and he returned to Taiwan.

The trick is to first steal photos of handsome guys from Instagram, use them to apply for dating software "Tantan", "Tinder", and "Omi" accounts, and randomly chat with female netizens.

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Afterwards, the members of the computer room asked the victim every day to gain the trust of the other party, and then recommended the fake Amazon shopping network to the victim, and then instructed the victim to log in to a fraudulent website on the almost fake Amazon platform, and asked the victim to remit 10,000 yuan to buy a gift card. 2,000 yuan to the victim's account.

For the first time, after letting the victim taste the sweetness, they will create panic-buying activities of various names such as celebrating festivals, constantly encouraging the victim to continue snapping up a large number of gift cards, and creating the illusion of "buy more, earn more" until the victim invests a lot of money Afterwards, they used various reasons such as platform problems to evade the inability to withdraw funds, and committed fraud.

According to reports, the police launched an investigation. On the 12th and 27th of last month, they seized the money laundering water room that the computer room cooperated with another place. A total of 23 people including Yang were arrested. A large number of stolen evidence such as certificates, financial cards, and passbooks were transferred to the prosecution for investigation on suspicion of aggravated fraud and organized crime.

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(Photographed by reporter Qiu Junfu)