Phone calls, mobile text messages, Line, Facebook, Wechat, Telegram... In our daily lives, all kinds of scam messages are ubiquitous; it seems the moment we open our eyes every morning, we are already living in a realm surrounded by scams.

In this kingdom of scams, fraud syndicates establish call centers dedicated to contacting victims; they establish courier teams using runners to withdraw illicit gains; they establish laundering hubs to funnel ill-gotten gains into collected bank accounts, making multiple transfers to create breaks in the money trail and obstruct investigations by prosecutors and investigators. Everything is done to swindle hardworking people out of their hard-earned money.

Why is the provider of the dummy account the most common target of prosecution within this massive and complex criminal structure? Why don't the police go after the real fraud syndicates? Fraud syndicates' tactics are updated every day—has the judiciary kept pace?

For the first lecture in the series for the special exhibition "Challengers in the Kingdom of Scams ♠" by the JRF Taichung Office, we invited Hsiao Jen-hao, Executive Director of the Taiwan Police Working Rights Advocacy Association, to share the secrets of frontline police investigation practices regarding scams, and also invited JRF volunteer attorney Lin Chia-yun to share the judicial dilemmas faced by dummy account scams, lifting the veil on the kingdom of scams through their perspectives.

Chang Hua-che Legal Specialist, JRF

Hsiao Jen-hao Executive Director, Taiwan Police Working Rights Advocacy Association

Lin Chia-yun Volunteer Attorney, JRF

• Time: 03/11 (Sat) 14:00-16:00
• Location: JRF Taichung Office
  In-person and online participation available. In-person capacity is limited to 40 people; the livestream link for online participation will be sent after registration.

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Newspapers report every day: Don't parties involved in dummy account scams really know they should safeguard their own account information?

To create breaks in the money trail, fraud syndicates are using increasingly diverse methods to acquire dummy accounts. In 2022, through media exposures, we were even abruptly shocked to realize that the industry chain of fraud syndicates is no longer satisfied with deceitful methods alone.

From job seekers to victims, from victims to criminal suspects... When providers of financial accounts are not only being scammed, but their personal freedom and physical safety are also threatened or being endangered, how will judicial practice assess these types of cases? What impact will this have on people who have been scammed out of their money?

For the second lecture in the series for the special exhibition "Challengers in the Kingdom of Scams ♠", we have invited Hsieh Hsing-ling, Associated Attorney at Evergreen International Law Firm, and Lin Chia-ying, Legal Director at Tian-Feng Joint Law Firm, to engage in a dialogue, moderated by Hsu Cheng-yin, Managing Partner at Tian-Feng Joint Law Firm.

We invite you to join us for this judicial Talk Show and talk about the past, present, and future of dummy account scams.

Hsu Cheng-yin Managing Partner, Tian-Feng Joint Law Firm

Hsieh Hsing-ling Associated Attorney, Evergreen International Law Firm

Lin Chia-ying Legal Director, Tian-Feng Joint Law Firm

• Time: 04/15 (Sat) 14:00-16:00
• Location: JRF Taichung Office
  In-person and online participation available. In-person capacity is limited to 30 people; the livestream link for online participation will be sent after registration.

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Ashley Alder, the newly appointed Chairman of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), once commented on cryptocurrency companies, "They are consistently and deliberately circumventing oversight, facilitating massive money laundering, and creating huge adverse risks to society."

Today, as blockchain technology gradually matures, the development of virtual currencies can be said to be sprouting like bamboo shoots after rain. However, precisely because virtual currency is not legal tender and suffers from insufficient or completely absent regulation, the risks of holding, trading, and investing in it are all far higher than those of legal tender.

Perhaps for these reasons, coupled with the transactional privacy of anonymity, the use of virtual currency by fraud syndicates for illicit transactions and money laundering is becoming increasingly severe.

How do criminal syndicates commit crimes through virtual currency? What are the respective development trends internationally and in Taiwan? If victims are scammed out of virtual currency, is there any possibility of tracking the coin flow?

This third lecture in the series for the special exhibition "Challengers in the Kingdom of Scams ♠" anchors the future of fraud. We hope to unravel the money laundering techniques of fraud syndicates together with everyone through the moderator of this lecture, Attorney Lin Yuan-hao, speaker Attorney Lin Hung-yu, and panelist Attorney Liao Chi-chun.

Lin Yuan-hao Associated Attorney, Yueh-Cheng Law Firm; Chairperson of the Civil Law Committee, Taichung Bar Association

Lin Hung-yu Attorney; Chairperson, Bitcoin and Virtual Currency Development Association; Deputy Chairperson of the Digital Economy and Financial Technology Committee, Taiwan Bar Association

Liao Chi-chun Attorney; Standing Executive Committee Member, JRF

• Time: 05/27 (Sat) 14:00-16:00
• Location: JRF Taichung Office
  ＊Online participation only; livestream link will be sent after registration

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