Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/24
By: Wang Cheng-chung and Emerson Lim

Taipei, June 24 (CNA) The Department of Household Registration has added a new function to its website allowing the public to verify the authenticity of national identification numbers, with the aim of curbing fraud.

The new measure has been implemented amid complaints that several telecommunication shops have been scammed by people using national identification cards with altered ID numbers, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said Monday.

This type of fraud is usually carried out by scammers when they purchase something through installment plans using fake ID numbers, in recent cases, mostly cellphones.
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