Background: Sino-Taiwanese Cross-Border Telecom Fraud

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For years, rampant telecom fraud schemes led by mainly Taiwanese syndicates have victimized numerous people in Taiwan and China. Efforts of the two governments to combat these transborder scammer b2b email list syndicates have forced them to relocate their criminal operations to third countries. As a result, China has strengthened its intelligence cooperation with multiple countries where these syndicates operate.

The fact that Taiwanese suspects are caught up in telecom fraud allegations in third countries is nothing new. Their extradition was once a subject of rather judicious cooperation between Beijing and Taipei. Under a 2009 agreement signed by the Chinese Communist Party government and Taiwan’s Kuomintang government on “joint crime-fighting and mutual judicial assistance,” Beijing was willing to work with Taipei to send Taiwanese criminal suspects apprehended in third countries back to Taiwan for trial.