Due to the anonymity of cryptocurrency, it often becomes one of the criminal methods of fraud gangs. A 40-year-old woman in Tainan was first defrauded of USDT equivalent to 2 million Taiwan dollars. Unexpectedly, she was contacted by a so-called international financial private organization to recover the money. The other party asked her to remit 680,000 hedging funds first.

Earlier this year, a 40-year-old woman surnamed Hong from the North District of Tainan City fell into a trap set by a fraud group. She used her husband's and her own savings and household funds to invest more than NT$2 million worth of USDT in the criminals, believing that she would be rewarded handsomely in the near future. Unexpectedly, this was the beginning of a complete loss...

The woman was nearly skinned

"In order to make a living, I have to afford to lose!" The woman, unwilling to be cheated, could not swallow this humiliation. She saw on the Internet that some netizens shared their experiences of successfully recovering defrauded funds. She then approached an international private financial organization that claimed to be specialized in recovering funds for victims. The woman mistakenly believed that this was her only lifeline and took it seriously, and got in touch with the group.

As soon as the "International Financial Private Affairs" organization heard the woman's request, they patted their chests and guaranteed that they would help her to the end. The full NT$2 million could be recovered, but the woman would have to pay another NT$680,000 as "investigation hedge funds." The NT$680,000 would be used as compensation and operating funds. The woman thought it was a very cost-effective deal no matter how she looked at it. This group was more powerful than the police. She was originally prepared to transfer the money, but the woman suddenly woke up before the transfer and decided to try calling the police first.

Police warn against secondary fraud

The woman then cooperated with the police and made an appointment with the fraud gang at Minde Road in the North District, and delivered the money in the form of a package. At this time, the Fifth Police Precinct had already deployed a number of plainclothes police officers outside the convenience store, and the people who arrived were indeed not a professional financial team in suits and noses. Only a 46-year-old male driver named Huang drove a small truck to collect the money. The man named Huang was arrested on the spot and protested that he was also a victim. He just saw a part-time truck driver collecting packages for 2,000 yuan each time on the Internet, and he had only two experiences of collecting packages in the past.

The police said that "secondary fraud" had appeared in the field of game point fraud many years ago. The fraud group also lied that they were a "hacker group" that could help recover the victim's lost game assets. The real purpose was to skin the victim a second time. The police also added that if they want to get the real money back, they can only go through formal legal proceedings, reminding the public not to blindly believe in unknown information on the Internet.