DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Local authorities along with representatives from the Taiwanese government nabbed at least 78 Taiwanese nationals in a series of raids in the city on Wednesday afternoon, April 18.
Davao City Police Chief Senior Supt Ronald de la Rosa said that the suspects were involved in large-scale fraud, raking in millions of dollars from their victims.
The raiding teams recovered documents and the tools used in the scheme in 3 different houses in the city.
A Taiwanese government official, who wished not to be named, said that suspects used phones, laptops and the Internet in their swindling operations.
“The modus operandi of this syndicate is that they will pretend as a customer service representative informing their victims that they had failed to pay their debts. Part of their scheme is to scare the victims that someone might have cheated and used their bank accounts and that their name would be dragged in the case. The suspect then will say that the police would be after the victims if they will not follow the instructions and demands of the caller,” the official said.
He added that the suspects would instruct the victims to deposit a particular amount of money to a “secured” bank account.
“Once the amount was deposited, the suspects would immediately cash it out”, the Taiwanese government official said.
The official added that the suspects, most of them young males and females, would be immediately brought back to Taiwan to face trial. – Rappler.com
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