See how these con artists, tapped into the psychological fears of the victims, that they don’t want to lose money, and then, they’d, PREYED on them, and the victims ended up, losing, MORE! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Con Artists Tapped into the Anxieties of Victims Losing Money to the Investment Schemes, Falsified as Police, Detectives, Law Enforcement Officers, Hackers and Other Roles, & Claimed “We Will Get the Problems Solved if You Pay Us”
There’s an influx of cases of fake investment scams, with the highest loss of assets for the victims, the con artist rings posted ads online, stating that they have special ways to assist the victims to get the sums they’d lost returned back to them, to collect the fees, and many of the victims who were conned once, got conned, again. The police analyzed, the con artist rings’ tapped into the anxieties of the victims after they’d fallen for the scams, and conned them twice, which turned into the final straw that crushed these victims’ backs.
The Criminal Investigation Agency estimated, that there were a total of 197,595 cases of fraud last year, with a total loss of $106 billion N.T.s, of them, the fake investment scams with a total of 58,675 cases, and a sum of 69.28 billion dollars N.T.s, and the analyses of the data collected showed, that the second-time scams were primarily conning the victims into investing, there were also the fake law enforcement offices, fake online auctions, where the victims fell for the schemes, that weren’t individually counted.
The police point out, the second-time scams used the fake law enforcement officers’ contacting the victims, claimed that they’d cracked the case and obtained the scammed amount, demanded the margins to be paid first; in recent years, the fake investment schemes are on the rise, the scam artists falsely claimed to the victims that they are specialist, law enforcement officers, self-help community group members, etc., etc., that they can help the victims get the sums they’d lost back, with the amount of ten-percent of what the victims were, scammed.
The police analyzed, that the scam rings tapped into the psychological desires of the victims’ wanting to get what they scammed back in a short time, claimed “many had received the sums they got scammed back already”, “if you miss out on the opportunity, it won’t come again for you”, forcing the victim to quickly pay up.
The pharmacist, Lin had been scammed $180,000N.T.s in the virtual currency scheme, she’d searched online for “getting the sums I got scammed back”, and added the contact person’s LINE account, the scam artists who got into contact with her stated that they have been certified to practice law in foreign countries, that they specialize in assisting victims to get the sums they were scammed back, that they’d chased the leads, and found that the sums the victims got scammed had been placed into the gambling sites online, that they could manipulate the gaming systems from the back, and assist the victims to win back the sums the victims had lost, that they can make extra money for the victims too, and from October to December of last year, the scammers conned Lin to deliver $1.65 million N.T.s to them in person.
Yen from the service industries met a female from LINE, and they’d dated and talked of marriage, the con artists told that they’d been scammed, that they’d gotten what was scammed from them back because they knew someone in the higher up of police, that they can introduce Yen, Yen followed the instructions, and added the member’s LINE contact, the contact claimed that they’d found the flow of his cash already, but he’d needed to pay a finders’ fee, last October, Yen was fooled and wired a total of $125,000N.T.s.
The scammers are also now using the anti-scam to scam too. The Taiwan Local Anti-Scam Association issued a forma statement, stating, that there were scam groups that claimed that they were working for the foundation, had been hired by the government agencies, working alongside the police investigators, and the major banks, that they can help the victims to get back the sums they were scammed of, and used the logo of the foundation on LINE to gain the trust of a victim of the investment schemes to wire $80,000N.T. “Technical assistance fees”.
The Criminal Investigations Agency stated, the victims should press for criminal and civil charges, and use the normal pathways to get the money lost back, to not believe in the online claims of “you can pay to get the sums that were scammed by you back”, as the officers who are working to take the statements of the scam victims, they’d reminded them of this new way of scamming too.
And so, this is how we might, get, revictimized, scammed a second, a third, even a FOURTH time, because we’re way too eager to get what we got scammed returned back to us, and the police ARE working, it’s just, that these cases are now, very intricate, with foreign bases of operations overseas, it’s taking too long, and sometimes, when we don’t get calls to update us on where the money traces are now, we get antsy, because we want to get the money we lost back quickly, and that made us all into, easy TARGETS for these, scam artists!
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