NOWNEWS
In July 2025, a family of five in Taichung, suspected of being deceived by a gold investment scam and burdened by heavy debt, committed suicide. In December 2024, a mother and daughter in Neihu, Taipei, lost approximately NT$12 million to an investment fraud and committed suicide after leaving a suicide note. Cases of fraud rings driving victims to despair are numerous, so what are the results of the government’s crackdown?
NOWNEWS interviewed victims, police, government officials, and scholars to examine the methods used by fraud rings, the pain points in their investigations, blind spots in sentencing and regulations, and uncover the structural issues that remain difficult to address in Taiwan’s “war on fraud.”