A fraudulent advertisement for a community that can immediately transfer money back to my hometown in Vietnam was found in the Facebook community.

(provided by the police)

[Reporter Cai Qinghua/Kaohsiung Report] A new method of fraud appeared in Kaohsiung City. A fraudulent group opened a social group on Facebook to defraud migrant workers who came to Taiwan to work and suffer from transferring money back to their hometown. Migrant workers keep their hard-earned money!

At around 14:00 on February 26, the Jiachang Police Station of the Nanzi Sub-bureau received a call from a convenience store chain in its jurisdiction, saying that a foreign woman followed the instructions on the phone to buy a point card and was suspected of being scammed. The police went to investigate immediately after receiving the report.

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After investigation, 49-year-old Nv Ruan said that she found an advertisement in the Facebook group that could transfer money back to her hometown in Vietnam immediately. Because it is very troublesome to exchange NT dollars to return to Vietnam, Nv Ruan followed the instructions and went to the convenience store to save time. When buying points, the clerk saw that Ruan Nv bought 10,000 yuan to buy points at a time, and noticed something wrong, and immediately called the police.

Police officer Wang Yanxiang found out that the association was a fraudulent association, and told Ruan that it was a fraudulent method of "fake exchange and real fraud".

The police said that the fraudulent group set up a social exchange information group on Facebook, and then used photos and private messages to purchase point information and asked the victim to use the purchase points to exchange, using the convenient and real-time false information on the Internet to deceive foreign migrant workers. The police reminded Online remittance is not a normal channel. If you want to conduct a remittance, you have to go through the normal national channel. Private remittances often involve fraud or other illegal situations.

The Nanzi branch reminded that the fraud group targeted migrant workers who came to Taiwan and wanted to exchange money back to their hometowns, and the victims were deceived. After being deceived, they dared not report the crime because of the unfamiliar place of life. The police reminded that if you encounter this type of fraud, you can immediately call 165 and 110 hotlines Ask for police assistance.

The store clerk noticed something wrong and helped to call the police to save the hard-earned money for the migrant workers!

(provided by the police)