Convicted con artist Huang Chi has been caught running a new scam by impersonating the secretary of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing in February, to scam 10,000 masks from a manufacturer.


Twenty-seven-year-old Huang Chi arrives at the prosecutors' office in a wheelchair. The convicted scammer was in court just a day earlier for impersonating a member of the Cathay Group's Tsai family in another scam.

How did you benefit from this scam? Why did you want masks at this time? Did you want to sell the masks?

In February, Huang and some friends contacted mask manufacturer CSD claiming to be Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's secretary. They said they wanted to purchase 10,000 masks and 100 boxes of alcohol swabs to donate to National Taiwan University. The company confirmed the story was fake after contacting Li's office and NTU. Prosecutors questioned the group of 10 on the 28th.

The government is not controlling the alcohol swab supply. Add to that the fact that we've always given hospitals top priority with our supply. Although they may be harder to find in pharmacies due to the current shortage, we make sure hospitals are never in short supply. That's why I thought it was really strange they wanted alcohol swabs. We also found out the customer data they left was fake, including the phone number they gave.

Taipei prosecutors have applied to detain Huang incommunicado on fraud, forgery and other charges. Bail for one of his accomplices, Su Li-min, has been set at NT$600,000.



下車後披上咖啡色毯子，坐在輪椅上行動，不想曝光，27歲詐欺慣犯黃琪，28號才因假冒國泰集團千金蔡佳玲親戚詐騙一案出庭，沒想到又把歪腦筋動到口罩上。

「這樣騙對你有什麼好處啊？這個時候你還要騙口罩嗎？你想用口罩獲利嗎？」

今年二月黃琪夥同友人，打電話給中衛口罩大廠，假冒自己是香港富商李嘉誠的秘書，佯稱要買一萬片口罩及一百盒酒精棉片送給台大，所幸中衛察覺異狀，並先後向李嘉誠女秘書及台大查證，才發現是騙局並向檢調報案，檢方28號晚間約談相關人共十人到案說明。

中衛營運長 張德成表示：「因為酒精棉片不是徵收品，然後我們一直以來，也是優先提供給醫院，雖然可能在一般藥局，可能比較少看到，因為現在是缺貨狀態，不過醫院，我們是不會讓它缺的，所以他要酒精棉片，我就覺得很奇怪，然後包含他留的一些客戶資料、電話號碼。做過確認以後，就發現這應該不是真的。」

台北地檢署考量黃琪惡習難改，依詐欺、偽造文書等罪將黃琪聲押禁見，同夥蘇立民則被諭令60萬元交保。