18 nabbed for defrauding Chinese civilians

After searching four locations in Taichung City and Taichung County, the police and the prosecutors finally caught the three illegal groups led by suspects surnamed Tsai, Lan and Chang.

The three groups had been composed of employers with financial difficulties since last November, who have used computers, the Internet and telephone machines to spread false voice mail about overdue phone bills to random Chinese individuals. By pretending to be telephone company staff members and the Chinese police, they asked their victims to transfer the payments to a specific bank account, from which another member of the groups would withdraw money.

To make the scam more convincing, the con artists even broadcasted a fabricated conversation between the Chinese police and the staff of a telephone company in the background of the voice mail, according to the police.

The police discovered computers, Internet Protocol sharing devices, telephones, cell phones, surveillance cameras, paper shedders, fraud guidance, personal information and bank information of the Chinese victims on the scenes.

Since the case involved victims from China, the police need to seek the Chinese police's assistance in investigating the problematic bank accounts in China used by the groups and the Chinese fraud victims.

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