COVID-19: Police warn about new strategies to defraud peopleBy Hsu Kuo-chen and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerScammers have developed new strategies to extract personal information and money amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan, the Taichung Police Department said on Sunday. The department provided advice to avoid online scams amid a surge in reports of people posing as contact tracing officials or e-commerce platforms. A cellphone displays a text message as a person scans a contact tracing QR code in Taipei on May 23. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei TimesSome pose as contact tracing officials, messaging targets to tell them that they have been listed as a contact of a confirmed case, it said. Such scams often have prices far below market norms and do not provide contact information, it said.

Source: Taipei Times June 08, 2021 15:56 UTC