Phone, text scam attempts fall 36.97% year-on-year in TaiwanStaff Writer, with CNATaiwan recorded about 25 million scam calls and text messages last year, a 36.97 percent drop from a year earlier and the steepest decline among Asian countries, according to a Taiwanese tech company yesterday. Loan scams accounted for nearly 80 percent of all fraudulent text messages in Taiwan last year, making them the largest scam category, Gogolook’s report said. Because these messages are professionally formatted and use formal language, they are easily mistaken for legitimate communications and have become one of the categories of text scam that has gradually grown in recent years, it said. In terms of nuisance calls, financial lending ranked first among calls received by Taiwan residents, with 14.59 million identified calls, according to the report. Product marketing ranked second among nuisance calls with 10.35 million calls, including tea sales and real estate brokerage, the report said.

Source: Taipei Times February 24, 2026 17:13 UTC