eTaiwan News, Taiwan
More than 10 local garment stores have suffered combined losses of NT$50 million (US$1.51 million) as a result of remittance fraud committed by a Chinese brokerage firm known to them as Guangda Co., the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said yesterday.
A store on the renowned Wufenpu business circle in Taipei’s Sungshan district, owned by a woman identified by her surname Wang, has been importing garments from China for over 10 years. Wang recently began to use Guangda Co. as her remittance broker, thinking she would be able to make savings on service charges.
She received a phone call one day from a person claiming to be Guangda’s accountant, who asked her to wire her payment to a different bank account. After remitting NT$1 million to the designated account, the company of course vanished.
