Beijing cracks down on Taiwanese-run fraud ringsTAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwanese fraud rings based all over the world have for years swindled billions of dollars from members of the public through phone scams — now they are the target of an angry China. As relations sour between Taipei and Beijing, China has insisted that Taiwanese scammers caught abroad are deported to the mainland. While Taipei has called the move "abduction," Beijing says it is justified because the majority of the phone fraud victims are mainland Chinese. In several swoops since April, nearly 200 Taiwanese fraud suspects have been deported to China from countries including Armenia, Cambodia and Kenya, according to Taiwanese authorities. This year more than 10,600 phone fraud cases were recorded up to October, with numbers almost doubling over the past two years due to smartphone app fraud.

Source: The China Post November 29, 2016 17:53 UTC