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Taiwan police crack virtual currency fraud syndicate: 68 people defrauded of hundreds of millions of New Taiwan dollars

According to the reference news network news, Taiwan Changhua police announced on the 10th that they had cracked a fraud group led by a man surnamed Lin. The group defrauded with virtual currency. After investigation, 68 people were defrauded and the amount was about 100 million Taiwan dollars. The police said that after questioning, 9 people including Lin Nan were sent to the office on suspicion of fraud and other crimes, and 2 of them were detained and banned by the prosecution. Zhang Anjin, deputy captain of the criminal police brigade of Changhua County Police Department, said in a joint interview with the media that in September 2023, a man surnamed Zhan went to the police station to report the case, saying that he was lured by netizens to join the social platform investment group. He had to pay cash to buy virtual currency, and then transfer the virtual currency to the wallet address provided by the customer service staff of the investment platform. When Zhan Nan was about to take out the cash, he was told that he had to invest another 10% of the profits as "tax" to get the cash. The man was defrauded of NT $3.40 million before he found out and called the police.