How We Busted A Taiwan Phone Scam Syndicate | Catching A Scammer | Full Episode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2022
- What does it take to catch a scammer?
The first episode takes us to Taiwan - home to the some of the world’s most sophisticated phone scam syndicates. What have the police & prosecutors learnt after spending decades in a cat-and-mouse game with them?
One syndicate is now targeting Singapore. You might even have picked up a call like that - they first impersonate staff from Ministry of Health, but later discovers that “China police” is looking for you. And once you are tricked, you’d be transferring your life savings to them for investigation.
Police and prosecutors across Taiwan and Singapore sit down with us to share the inside story. With just the victims’ phones, how do they weed out the scam call centres hidden deep within Taiwan? And why is it a nail-biting process to prove the crooks have done it, even after catching them in the act?
And more importantly, how do we get all that scammed money back?
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About the show: Investigators behind Asia’s biggest scam busts reveal nail-biting and unreal details of their hunt in this three-part docuseries.
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Hackers, scammers have the ability to destroy many lives and should be viewed no different from murderers.
What?
Punishment must be very very very sever, mean have evidence and do not confess, they will stay in police custody without trial for as long as it takes. Give them free food 3 times per day and let they think hard. Law must be harsh just like them, no mercy shown. Not how to crack them !!!
Quite agree
Scammers should be dealt like drug traffickers and capital punishment must impose to these evil criminals who are definitely destroying life of victims.
Because capital punishment is a deterrent for drug traffickers 🙄
You have to have capital punishment!!!!!
like watching a real cop drama. so exciting. great job for the police force in taiwan and sg !
As for me, once I received that call, I play the buddha chant. Then later, I forward the scam contact number from the Truecaller app to Scam Shield app or police report with the scammer's contact number. Then, I let the police handle this case. Normally, the scammer call-up is the same group but a different person only and they can be traced. At the end of the day, I did not receive any scammer calls till now (used to be every 3 days a call or two or a 1-week one-time call). We need to fight back by creating awareness or forwarding that contact to the police rather than letting them scam others. So, we can have lesser calls or no calls from them. Try to share this with others to stop them from bothering us.
Thanks for the good coverage. would like to see more of such news!
Once if I spotted numbers not on my phone list, I just simply block them. Scammers are like locusts from anywhere and everywhere. One just have to be careful and wise
I don't answer calls from anyone not already in my address book. Ditto texts from people who pretend they texted the wrong number and then try to start up a conversation with you. Scammers are bold. I swear the just dial up random people now. I just block their numbers.
I don't answer either. But, I'll text the word "SCUM" to them if I can before I report & blocked them.
Thank you so much for your posting. It's so helpful for all of us in this internet age.
Normally scammer haven't even complete the first sentence I hang up already. Nowadays, any number got a + in front I just reject. I find it really hard to imagine that enough people are getting scammed that a whole industry has sprung up.
Awesome work by the Singapore and Taiwan law enforcement!
Scams should be added to the list of serious crimes punishable by drawing, hanging, and quartering.
scammers used their mouth and hands ,cut both
Having prosecutors to lead the investigations is indeed a good idea. At least they will know what is the category of evidence they need before they can charge the potential criminal.
#goodjob
Great documentary, but I have to say, the Taiwan Police is not very good at dealing with this type of bust, the first bust, they have no intel on the building, not even sure which floor they are located on, they have done zero recon on suspects and entry points, leading to a failure busting in giving the scammers so much time to destroy evidence, here we would have first try to rent a floor to gather intel and mark the suspects, second, they knew this is a huge operation and well planned, we would have treated them like drug dealers, assuming many heavy doors and many locks, so the next best entry point would be from the windows after dropping in from the floor above, and finally when they stopped the car, every one in the car should be treated as a suspect, cuffed first and ask questions later to minimize the chance of any of them destroying evidence, we can all see they are doing their best and have worked very hard on this case, all credits to them, may be this will give them more experience for their next bust. Good luck guys.
ok la you be polis
why do you need to blur out the scammers' faces? let them be shamed
to protect their families
Yet the faces of the police are so easily identifiable
Only victim is to be shame by showing full face. Scammer has human rights nb should be protected. Because they are rich u know. Deserved respect.
Scammers can hide behind actual numbers. What you see in your caller ID might not be the actual numbers. Best action is to hang up and manually dial the number back yourself.
JUST hang up and Don't call the number. You will be causing distress to the real person with that number who is not the scammer.
Calling the number back can lead to a large phone bill if it's a premium number designed to lure people into calling back.
Once I received a call from a scammer. He asked me to check police website for phone numbers. The number he was calling from was one of the police station numbers. Could it be that the police are the scammers?
@@eugenec7130 the police number is real, the number that call you is different number but in your phone it show the police number.
@@eugenec7130 so you got scammed or not?
Scams can never be eradicated because governments around the world do not see this problem as a threat to national security and are therefore so passive to this problem. They only issue warnings to people but rarely arrest the scammers. Many politicians are friends of drug traffickers, we do not know if it is the same for scammers.
Solution is 1) don’t answer any unknown number 2) put as much $ as possible in cpf to stop money from being scammed
Exactly .. they do this for their own Pocket. Business cycle. All around the world . Have the same matters that just a few . REALized .
scams will continue as long as the victims are just as greedy!!!
In my country 🇺🇸we have RICO racketeering influence corrupt organizations act.
Good show...its like watching real life Cyber CSI.
Thank you.
整集看下来，侥幸。希望台湾警察再加油
Well done!
Background sound like the clock ticking is too loud and annoying. Please reduce the background sounds/ transition it’s not necessary. Thanks for creating much contents that’s educational and useful.
I was a scam victim for less than a month before in Malaysia with a huge losses. Most of the scam victims they all had little or no awareness about the police standard code of conduct (like me) causing many fall to the scammer's threatening call. I personally very regret this as most of the fear and anxiety taken over in many victim's mind to a point that they can surrender everything they had to the scammers. I learnt a lot from this incident and I hope authorities could display the code of conduct via roadside notice board or a handbook so everyone can read thus understand. 99% of the scammer would be defeated this way
21.21 The police man quite handsome LOL
Nice job. Jim Browning and Scammer Payback uses actual scammer footage and photos instead of reenactments when explaining the scam. Hopefully future documentaries can do the same.
Very sad the ppl that took care of are gone n worst never got the chance to see them for the last time.hopefully will be someone better when release, it's a lesson from us be open seek help there's always someone nice n trustworthy.
Scammers are everywhere not only in Taiwan.
Taiwan is a baby.
Very funny. Reset phone especially iPhone, SG police from forensic science dept. should be able to retrieve destroyed data. Wondering why Taiwan police so scare of phone destroy? The data destroyed is only on phone itself, but iCloud still kept all the data. That’s why owners of iPhone are not too worried if phone get stolen or lost as another phone can be used to reset the existing phone data and new phone can download all the existing data from iCloud again.
Shame am not a Mandarin speaker else I'd love to troll these ppl and purposely waste their time. Honestly this needs to be a min. 10yr jail sentence
Should put In crimewatch
Many years ago(1980s-1990s), in the HongKong movies, they always have many gangsters. It is fiction but probably reflects real situations. So the Hong Kong gangsters always escape to Taiwan. There are definitely some organised crimes in Taiwan. Nowadays , the criminals are at Phillipines and Cambodia. Why because they are always associated with Casinos and Cambodia has so many Casinos. Singapore's most famous gangster was called Mr Big. operated out from Amsterdam. He wrote a book or something. His facts is in wikipedia. Now we don't know who is the biggest gangsters. Malaysia has many gangsters. This is something we have to watch for. Some violence can be expected as now they remove death penalty from the drug trafficking activities. At some point in time , crimes may increase if the Malaysian police is not strong.
Now scammer started to speak English they recruit singaporean or Malaysian to take tier 1 call Center role, just received call from scammer pretending to be from UOB call Center.
hai di ees micrusuft claling. ther seeeams too bea prblem wit jur computor
call it english if you like.
TW police should wait until the fellow bring back the food then barge into the apartment.
The swat raid was a joke, no bomb to explode the door
Very sad that these scammers get rich through other peoples' hard earn savings (even old folks)....through cheating & deceiving...and the wife (with a baby in the car) is helping...where is their conscience (良心)? We really have to educate our children so that next generation will know that its wrong to do this!
Taiwan and Singapore both are countries that have very low crime rate. But as in any where in the world there are always the heartless criminals. I spent a month touring the whole Taiwan island and very impressed with the people in general. I also had worked with colleagues and customers of Taiwan and Singapore and they are always honest and warm.
Very engaging to learn about the tiers of the call scam organization works. CNA has become one of my favorite Asian broadcasting service, besides NHK.
Scammers could be getting personal info from our local employees; e.g. local banks, MOM, IRAS,HDB, CPF, insurance companies, shipping companies or even your company HR.
Or random lucky draws, loyalty mobile apps, church address lists...
When the outcome of lousy law and poor court sentence. All will be little TV drama. All those light cell imprisonment will help those thugs back to the scamming trade again and again, because the reward and return is so enormous.
you know them when they say they are calling from MINISTRY OF HELL
The scammers has no reason to barricade the doors and destroy phone. This is consider as resisting arrest at the same time and could be treat as the highest punishment.. drag the case without bail for unlimited amount of years until they start admitting one by one. Government can certainly use extremely measure to counter such scam organizations.
If drug trafficking warrants death sentence in some countries, I do not understand why scammers are exempted from death. If the govs around the world treat scams seriously, there is no reason why scams cannot be eradicated.
Correction they have EVERY reason to barricade doors and destroy evidence. I'm not justifying nor supporting their actions but that's what they do .
What does 'MOH' has to do with 'money laundering' investigation?
I've also recevie alot of scam call claiming that they are from MOH and said that i've falsify my vaccination record by transfering people to make a fake cert so wants to investigate my bank account. Thats how it link.
World wide campaign to educate all about scams. Higher much much more severe punishment even for tier 1 offenders. If no one is getting tricked, the industry will die off.
Taiwan police also collaborate with asia police such Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines.. But more to Malaysia because syndicate link with one more syndicate same case
The problem right now is that we don't watch TV and don't read newspaper.. So we don't get crucial information like this.. All our news is through algorithm of social media that often gives us useless information. I've only saw this documentary 1 year after it released through a random post
If have English subsitle will b good...as sometimes unable to turn on sound system due to inconvenience situation.
Kudos to the Taiwan police !
I felt sorry for the police they tried so hard to get in the building & the ruthless criminals pored soap water on them, can't we see how these criminals are ruthless, look how they treat the honorable police, think about it what they will do to the public, think people!!! I have highly respect to the police but no respect to the politicians at all anymore!!! God bless world police!!!
did the conviction happen?
No subtitles, hmm. I can't watch it 😢
The "china" scam callers obviously wouldn't work on local Singaporeans. But we do have a large contingent of foreigners for them to target. These calls can be quite entertaining when u r bored
I answered every calls from scammers, all ended up they swearing getting pissed....
It makes me so happy to call these people.
Can catch Tier 3 cannot catch the Big Boss?
Like got kena caught before.. soap water, locks all ready
Proposed solution, Government to Government cooperation. It could be any country which in this particular case are taiwan and singapore. Singapore citizens are the victims and taiwan citizens are the suspects or criminals. Singapore should promulgate or inform their citizens that all police calls or any government body from other country will go through singapore police first then convey it to them.
17:51 this program has just revealed the policeman’s face by focusing on his profile and eyes🤦🏻♀️
Why is it that CNA keeps on emphsising Singapore when the scammers were from Taiwan
Its not a total loss that the scammers destroy equipment. It costs $ to replace equipment. Even if it only TEMPORARILY STOPS the scammers youre still stopping the scammers . Theirs still ovstructing , resisting, destroying evidence.
😅it a really good thing I learned Japanese. Oh wait no I haven’t.😂
Scammer continue root and will get their karma 10 folds
if u born in singapore should know, our auth will never call u and ask for $$.. hw can u dont trust our auth?
One way to protect yourself , is scam baitimg , call these assholes over and over wasting their time. Put their numbers om social media . So orher people can call and waste th e ir time. It takes $$ for them to change their numbers .
That young female prosecutor is very blur and cute LOL
Received all this scam calls everyday.
Its great to kill time by fooling around with them
@@zenniz1992
My mum is retired
That's what she does sometimes
There were million of such centre but only the little small peanut guy were alway caught and those big boss alway set freely or some even were powerful or rich personnel that government won't dare to touch
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Tai Hua Kwan ?
@25:00 indeed lousy work done by Taiwan police on the work to break-in to the criminal's den.
In my cuntry 🇺🇸 we have RICO racketeering influence corrupt organization act.
Goodlooking police like me
Influence by America
received such calls countless of times. Just ask them to speak in English and they will hang up the phone.
That's what I do😂
All scam catch trm taiwan sheng cheng same all catch prisoners police do greats job👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hear China police officer I laugh , see if got time to entertain them anot
I urge the Singapore police to capture the scammers directly and to educate these “victim of scams” ; instead of freezing the bank account of innocent parties embroiled into the scams by these so call “victims” .
These “victim of scam” are hookwinked by the online strangers/scammers and collaborated with scammers to implicate the real victim of this whole scam saga (those innocent parties who got their bank account frozen for years) .
should just c4 the door
3:10 我们抓到这个嫌犯的配合度很低HOR . He said Singlish
I just ignore all the calls and messages from China. 😘😘😘😘😘
Sadly Singapore Anti Scam team not as proactive than Taiwanese.Maybe We are just too honest ..Singapore team always cannot be bothered feel ..Tw team more advanced and passionate ..
Amateur police force so pathetic
definitely not straight-forward process?... we went looking for the victims?.. i am with the police and i'm talking every time like i'm asking a question?.. why can't i talk normal?.. the SG policeman's accent is so annoying.
I just fell victim to a crypto scam last week due to an introduction on social media and I lost everything and I want to die
I don’t understand, Singapore police do not speak chinese? Singapore is a Chinese people country..why the Singapore police only able to speaking English?? Huh ???
Maybe the Singapore policeman must be able to speak Chinese . As he is a government employee so services the Singapore citizens
Some chinese upbringing got whitewashed, and gradually forget their mother tongue
Singapore police consist of various ethnicities. You have Chinese, Indian or Malay police officers. So it depends on who the investigating officers are.
because CNA is based on english but taiwan dont spreak english!~
Singapore is not a Chinese people country! We all speak common language called English then followed by our mother tongue language which majority are Chinese and then Malay and follows by Indian . Please educate yourself and get your fact right before commenting. It’s embarrassing. Thank you! 😊
The working language in Singapore is English, hence English is spoken in all the commercial offices, government offices and retail areas. We are bilingual, and can speak Mandarin together with English in working environment and also out of it. I can’t say the same for places like Taiwan, mainland china or Hong Kong where only Mandarin or Cantonese are used and the people have trouble communicating in English which is the universal language!
guys, you can make this video 20 mins. Instead u make it for 50 mins. Cuts the crappy audio insertion and transition!
police can't catch, but God can. everything will be back to biblical consequences
the island of scam
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Chibynese….😂