Several district mayors in Taiwan's New Taipei City have recently received unknown letters containing crudely synthesized indecent photos, asking them to join and actively contact the WeChat account attached to the letter and await instructions from the other party. In response to this, the New Taipei City Criminal Investigation Bureau announced on Friday (March 3) that it has formed a special task force to investigate the case, but the identity and motive of the suspect have yet to be clarified.
It is reported that the background and image position of the composite photos are the same, and it is suspected that they are intended to frighten the district mayor and cause him to commit illegal acts. The New Taipei City police immediately requested the direction of the District Prosecutor's Office and launched an investigation into the case in the direction of intimidation or fraud. The New Taipei City Criminal Police Department also stated that the letters may have all come from China.
The police stressed that sending threatening letters with false sexual images involves crimes such as intimidation, infringement of sexual privacy and false sexual images under the criminal law, and may be punished with imprisonment of up to five years. The public should not test the law.
Last June, several village heads in Tamsui, New Taipei City received obscene videos synthesized by AI. They were threatened by unknown persons to buy back the videos privately within a time limit, otherwise the videos would be made public. At that time, the Criminal Investigation Bureau stated that several university professors were also victims in the previous year, and their public photos were used to scam people. Artificial intelligence scams are emerging in an endless stream, and the public is urged to be careful and prevent them.
