She works as an editor in a scam group and earns 9 million in 2 years

Taiwan prosecutors recently uncovered a virtual currency fraud case. The fraud group made more than 200 million yuan in two years, and the woman who served as the editor even enjoyed a total of 9.03 million in salary and bonus dividends. The police investigating the case also exclaimed, "It turns out that It’s so profitable!”

According to "Ettoday", the Kaohsiung City Procuratorate recently investigated a fraud case. The suspect surnamed Lin founded the "Sharing Profit Center" and falsely claimed that he could earn 2%-4% dividends by investing in virtual currencies and restaurants. , and began to recruit investors, and the woman surnamed Xu was recruited as a community editor, responsible for operating Facebook, IG, TikTok and other communities and publishing advertisements.

As the illegal profits increased, the main suspect also began to expand his operations and recruit more editors. In more than two years, he attracted more than 300 victims, and the amount of fraud exceeded NT$200 million. It wasn't until someone discovered that Chuangyi Center suddenly stopped paying dividends and used various excuses to shirk it that they realized they had been deceived.

The prosecutor said that the main suspect earned nearly 80 million through fraud over more than two years. In addition to a high monthly salary of 70,000 yuan, the editor surnamed Xu also received bonuses and dividends as high as 6.72 million yuan, which works out to an annual salary of about 4.5 million yuan.

Facebook scam ads are rampant

Online investment scams are rampant in Taiwan, and Facebook is a social tool favored by fraud groups. The "Taiwan Fact Checking Center" reported that in addition to fake investments and real scams, advertising posts that "help you recover fraudulent money" have often appeared on Facebook recently, but they are actually disguised as lawyers, hackers or anti-fraud organizations. of secondary fraud.

These fraud groups are very smart and use Meta advertising tools to place ads targeting the "anti-fraud" keyword. According to statistics, there were more than 500 related advertisements from January to April this year alone.

This type of fake anti-fraud advertisements usually steal real lawyer photos, hacker pictures, or disguise themselves as anti-fraud organizations, and induce users to download unknown apps or enter strange law firm websites.

Although this kind of anti-fraud scam advertisement is very suspicious at first glance, most people can only manually report it to Facebook when they see the advertisement to reduce the push. If Facebook officials do not strengthen the advertising review mechanism, fraud groups will still continue to place ads and may lead to more people being victimized.

165 launches anti-fraud dashboard

The Taiwanese government has established an anti-fraud office in recent years, and the 165 anti-fraud hotline under the National Police Agency has launched an “anti-fraud dashboard” to allow the public to instantly understand fraud data in various places.

According to the latest data, 661 fraud cases were accepted on September 4 alone, with financial losses exceeding 400 million yuan. The number one fraud method was "fake investment fraud", and the amount of money attracted was also the highest. People must be vigilant when accessing information online to avoid falling into fraud traps.