Recently, an 18-year-old female student in Miaoli, Taiwan, believed her classmate's introduction that flying to Thailand to "carry gold" back to Taiwan could earn her 600,000 in cash. Ignoring her parents' objections, she secretly boarded a plane. However, upon arrival in Thailand, her phone was confiscated, and she was suspected of being imprisoned and forced into conducting telephone scams, only able to secretly contact her family using a "work phone" and pleading, "Don't give up on rescuing me."
This gold photo, sent by a classmate, led an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Miaoli to be deceived into going to Thailand for the sake of earning money.
The mother of the deceived 18-year-old girl said: "My daughter initially sent messages on Instagram. But after landing in Thailand, all contact was lost."
The mother explained that on October 25, her daughter received a message from a classmate named Wang, who was abroad, asking her if she wanted to come to Thailand to "carry gold" back. She could fly back to Taiwan the next day, and the trip would earn her 600,000 in cash. He emphasized that the airfare was also provided.
The mother was always opposed, but her daughter did not listen to her advice. Taking advantage of the family's unawareness, she flew out, and only after her daughter arrived in Thailand and sent a photo from the airport did her mother realize she had left the country. She immediately told her it was a scam and to find someone to help her fly back to Taiwan, but it was already too late.
The mother of the deceived 18-year-old student said: "I told her to leave quickly, leave quickly, but it was too late to call the police because she had already been forced into a car."
The daughter sent a photo of herself in the car and then sent a few specific locations, including her position in Asian Road, Siwarin Province, Thailand, but then suddenly there was no more news.
The mother of the deceived 18-year-old student said: "Her own phone was controlled and confiscated that day, and I only found out her last location in Thailand was actually in Myanmar through tracking her phone."
The parent choked up, saying that about a week later, the daughter seemed to use a work phone to send a message to her sister, telling her sister she couldn't return and even sought help from civilian rescue organizations in mainland China, but the messages couldn't get out.
The sister kept in contact with her, but suddenly she said she had a stroke, and in the next few days, she would call home, also telling her sister "don't give up on rescuing me."
The mother of the deceived 18-year-old student said: "The last time was on 11/8, she messaged that she had a stroke and to find a way to rescue her, otherwise it would cost 500,000 US dollars, and since then there has been no news."
On November 6, a 21-year-old woman in Kaohsiung was also lured to Thailand by a friend for a trip, but was kidnapped as soon as she disembarked.
Now in Miaoli, an 18-year-old woman has also been deceived into going to Thailand. The Miaoli police speculate that the student might have been trafficked by a group in collusion with a scamming syndicate, lured to Myanmar to engage in online scams.
Unlike previously deceiving victims to Cambodia, recent criminal groups have changed their tactics to deceive young people to Thailand, Myanmar, and other neighboring Southeast Asian countries to engage in illegal crimes, even using Dubai as a base or transit point.
The police emphasized that some foreign parts have requested assistance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while domestically, the police said they would investigate people the student had recently been in contact with to assist her in returning to Taiwan as soon as possible.
