Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party New Taipei City Councilor Lin Bingyou recently visited the notorious “phone scam park” in Myanmar’s Myawaddy for on-site inspection. He shared numerous photos on Facebook and in an interview with Epoch Times, he revealed that behind the phone scam park is involvement from China. Local residents informed him that the phone scam syndicate is driven by the Chinese Communist Party’s “Fujian Gang.”
Lin Bingyou visited the “Shunda Park” at the end of last year in Myawaddy, located on the border between Thailand and Myanmar. He mentioned that the management system in the phone scam park is not strict but lacks humanity. They oppress the “pigs” (referring to deceived people) as much as possible and engage them in fraudulent activities according to the park’s instructions. Lin found life guides and related materials in the phone scam park that indicated, “If you don’t obey, don’t do anything, you will be beaten.”
Lin Bingyou discovered that the phone scam park seems to have a principle of avoiding causing death to the “pigs” because they believe it could lead to additional side effects, such as reactions from family members and government actions. Instead, they inflict great pain on the “pigs” mentally and physically or keep them in extremely poor living conditions, making their lives miserable and unable to escape.
In cases where the physical condition of the “pigs” in the phone scam park is very poor, they are expelled from the park rather than facing severe consequences like death. Lin Bingyou emphasized that in the phone scam park, climbing up is possible if you have a ruthless heart, but if any compassion is shown, one will be locked in the lower levels and beaten. He stated that ordinary people wouldn’t last in deception, so the phone scam park deliberately erases humanity in its regulations, using high-pressure methods to make victims lose basic ethics, morals, and human values to engage in scams.
Lin Bingyou previously mentioned on Facebook that the “phone scam industry is linked to China (the Chinese Communist Party)” and is a result of China’s geopolitical exports. He further elaborated that after World War II, countries began to establish their democratic nations independently. However, some countries faced challenges, especially after China introduced the “Belt and Road” initiative. Many countries, due to affiliating with the Chinese government, did not embrace Western mainstream values and international order, leading to significant influences from the Chinese-style economic colonization brought by the “Belt and Road.”
Lin Bingyou pointed out that as the “Belt and Road” initiative from China progresses, it ultimately turns into “China’s backyard.” Even if China cannot control the country entirely, Chinese people and companies will have substantial room for using funds and technology, resulting in the creation of so-called “phone scam havens.”
The Prince Group is suspected of operating at least ten scam parks in Cambodia, and its founder Chen Zhi was recently arrested. Lin Bingyou admitted that the Prince Group is just a brand, with numerous groups engaged in phone scams, possibly competing or collaborating with each other.
Local people in Myanmar have mentioned to him that the phone scam syndicate is driven by the “Fujian Gang,” and thus the Prince Group might only be part of the network, which likely exists in the entire region of Myanmar and Cambodia.
Canadian Chinese writer and democracy activist Sheng Xue previously told Epoch Times that Chen Zhi was born in Lianjiang County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. He is the son of the elder sister of Huang Kunming, the current Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Chen specializes in managing wealth for the central Fujian Gang and Qi Qiaoqiao, sister of the Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, and laundering money for them.
Regarding how Taiwan should cooperate internationally to jointly prevent fraud, Lin Bingyou emphasized that it is “extremely difficult” as fraud groups now prefer using virtual currencies, which lack a unified standard of system regulation internationally. He suggested that the Taiwan government promote regulatory measures for virtual currencies and then collaborate internationally.