Before the Lunar New Year, the Xizhi Police Substation in Taipei received reports of three bank fraud cases. Each time, the police arrived at the scene in a timely manner and successfully persuaded and prevented the public from engaging in transactions that could result in significant losses. In one case, a 34-year-old woman surnamed Lin claimed, under the instruction of a fraud syndicate, that she wanted to withdraw 700,000 New Taiwan Dollars in cash to purchase a Tesla car. Fortunately, the police intervened in time and exposed her true intention: to buy virtual currency. With the patient persuasion of the police, Ms. Lin eventually gave up the idea of withdrawing the money and saved her savings.
Various fraudulent methods exist, and the Xizhi police pointed out that fraud syndicates often use old tricks to confuse the public and manipulate them into going to the bank for remittances or withdrawals. Luckily, through close cooperation between the police and financial institutions, these illegal activities were timely detected and intercepted. Before the Lunar New Year alone, the Xizhi Police Substation successfully intercepted three cases, including investment scams and online dating fraud.
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