2Taipei Times
Date: Aug 01, 2016
By: Chen Wei-tzu and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A Taichung woman appeared in court on Friday last week after allegedly booking a ticket
Alumnae of the National Tainan Chia-chi Girls’ Senior High School pose in front of the school wearing the school’s old uniform on July 22. Photo: Wang Chieh, Taipei Times
with a “randomly” entered ID card number, unaware that the number was from a legitimate ID card owned by someone else.
The woman, surnamed Lu (呂), while attempting to purchase a t2rain ticket to return to her home in Taichung, said she was worried about her personal information being stolen online and so she entered the ID number A123456789 instead of her own.
The transaction was successful, but she canceled the ticket purchase out of fear that the transaction would get her in trouble, she said.
Railway authorities, upon learning of the transaction, deemed it to be a violation of forgery laws and pressed charges against Lu, but the New Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office concluded that her actions did not constitute intent to commit a crime and decided not to indict her. [FULL STORY]
