The China Post
Date: September 6, 2017
By: The China Post

TAIPEI – The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) raided the call centers of a scam ring

The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) raided the call centers of a scam ring in Taichung in a joint operation with Taichung Police Department and the Railway Police on Aug. 31.

in Taichung in a joint operation with Taichung Police Department and the Railway Police on Aug. 31.

The CIB’s Sixth Investigation Corp and the Second Precinct of the Taichung Police Department received reports of a fraud organization operating in the central city run by a man surnamed Lee. Since early this year, Lee has allegedly rented two rooms in two luxury residential apartment buildings for NT$25,000 per month as call centers, where scammer would call mainland Chinese landline numbers in random and in order to con them.

Prosecutor Huang Jhih-wei at the Taichung District Prosecutors Office directed the CIB Sixth Investigation Corp, the Second Precinct and Dajia Precinct of the Taichung Police Department as well as the Taichung Branch of the Railway Police to form a taskforce to investigate the alleged crime.    [FULL  STORY]