Barry Lam's Wife Deceived by Friend and Lost NT$50M 林百里妻遭友人誆騙投資 損失5千萬

Quanta Computer Founder Barry Lam’s wife was defrauded by her friend and lost NT$50 million in scam investment. Confronted with floods of scam cases, the police initiated a scam-crackdown project and arrested thousands of suspects in 12 days, confiscating hundreds of millions of NT dollars. The central government also established a cross-departmental national scam-crackdown team. 

Founder of Quanta Computer Barry Lam is frequently seen in various technology forums and his career map continues to expand, yet his wife was recently scammed out of over NT$50 million. Flustered and arrested in the pouring rain, the fraud suspect surnamed Chu is actually a friend of Barry Lam's wife, who deceived her in investing in overseas funds but turned out to be a total scam.

“Open up!!! Police here! Get down, get down, get down!”Police also cracked down on a money laundering scam group that advertised fake jobs on Facebook and requested a personal meeting, after which they house arrested those who came for the job and confiscated their account books for figurehead accounts. As scam and defrauding methods aggregated in the hundreds, the central government initiated a scam crackdown project and arrested nearly 2,000 suspects in 12 days, while the illicit money amounted to over hundreds of millions.

Su Tseng-chang, ROC Premier: “I just approved an increase of NT$1.4 billion in this area, striving for capturing the ringleader first, as we must persist till the end for all illegal organizations.”

The central government, in a cross-departmental collaboration, established a national scam crackdown team to pursue more active measures in combating scam groups, including sending 120 million fraud prevention text messages, utilizing AI, through the use of keywords, etc., and having telecom side intercept suspicious messages before they are sent. It is estimated that 30 million messages may be blocked this way annually while suspending 5,000 nominal accounts. In addition, forewarning financial accounts should be established as well.

Chiu Pei-yu, Chief, Scam Crackdown Center, Criminal Bureau: “We hope that under this strategy we may achieve four major objectives: fraud prevention, cash flow clampdown, tool destruction, and group wipe-out.”

This time, the Ministry of the Interior, the Financial Supervisory Commission, the Ministry of Justice, and NCC will all join in the effort to prevent the endless emergence of scam cases. After all, new types of criminal patterns continue to bring forth newer forms. Society at large earnestly awaits the efficacy of the national scam crackdown team.
 

廣達電腦創辦人林百里經常受邀出席各大科技場合，事業版圖不斷擴張，反觀他的妻子，日前卻被騙走5000萬元。大雨中狼狽落網，設局陷害的朱姓嫌犯，還是林百里妻子的身旁友人，誆騙投資境外基金，根本是場騙局。

「開門啦，警察啦！趴下！趴下！趴下！」不只有熟人詐騙，警方破門攻堅，一舉破獲洗錢詐欺集團，透過臉書刊登假的求職廣告，邀約見面後，就把民眾軟禁，收取帳戶存摺，做為人頭帳戶，而詐騙招數百百種，中央啟動打詐專案，12天內，查獲近2千名嫌犯，扣案的不法金額，高達上億元。

行政院長蘇貞昌說：「我剛批核定增加14億，要做這一方面的努力，打蛇打頭、擒賊擒王，對不法組織都一定要追到底。」

為了強化打詐能量，中央跨部會合作，20日成立打詐國家隊，展開更積極作為，要做的事，包含發送1億2千萬封防詐簡訊；藉由AI分析，以關鍵字等方式，在可疑簡訊發送前，讓電信端提前攔阻，預計每年擋下3千萬封，並停話5千門人頭門號，也要設立金融帳戶的預警機制備戰。

刑事局打詐中心股長邱佩俞表示：「期待在這個策略之下，可以達到四大目標，包含阻詐騙、打金流、毀工具以及清集團。」

這回，包括內政部、金管會、法務部、NCC等單位，全體總動員，以防詐騙案件不斷上演，畢竟新型態犯罪模式，推層出新，打詐國家隊，成效如何？各界拭目以待。