【Notice】Fraud Prevention Awareness for Overseas Chinese Students

Purpose:

To enhance fraud prevention awareness among overseas Chinese students, please review and assist in promoting the following important information.

Details:

Recently, the Overseas Community Affairs Council has received reports from schools indicating that several overseas Chinese students were forced to suspend their studies and return home due to suspected involvement in selling or misusing bank accounts.

It is believed that organized crime groups are systematically targeting overseas students in Taiwan, exploiting their lack of legal knowledge, trust in fellow nationals, and inexperience.

These groups may lure students with promises of high pay, deceiving them into providing bank accounts or ATM cards, which are then used for illegal activities such as fraud.

To prevent students from unknowingly becoming accomplices to fraud, schools are urged to actively promote legal awareness among both current and newly arrived overseas Chinese students.

Students should be reminded to be cautious of offers promising easy money or high rewards, and never to hand over personal financial information, bank accounts, or ATM cards to others.

The Council has prepared anti-fraud EDMs (electronic direct mailers) in multiple languages, including:

Chinese, English, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Burmese.

These resources are available for download at the official website:

🔗 https://www.ocac.gov.tw/OCAC/Pages/VDetail.aspx?nodeid=6552&pid=24875487

Please use these materials in new student orientation and foundational education programs, and ensure the message is clearly and widely communicated to help students stay alert, verify suspicious messages, and avoid being deceived or unintentionally breaking the law.