Taipei City police broke a credit-card fraud operation yesterday which involved collusion between a postman and gangsters.
More than 500 credit cards have been fraudulently used and could have caused losses of more than NT$50 million, police said.
The police discovered that Liu Chung-chieh (
Prosecutors and the police have arrested Liu and are currently trying to track down Wu.
Liu admitted that he had colluded with the ring since June. He said he had secretly collected the registered parcels that credit card-issuing banks sent to their customers applying for credit cards.
According to Liu's confession, Wu took the parcels and downloaded key credit card information to produce phony cards. Then they repacked the parcels before Liu delivered these mails to the addressees.
Sources said the banks issuing credit cards found out recently that many cardholders whose cards were illegally used all lived in a certain district in Taipei City.
Police then began working with the postal supervisory system to locate suspects and uncover the forgery ring.
Police said Wu, nicknamed "A-tsung" (
Prosecutor Liu Cheng-wu (
They found sophisticated counterfeiting equipment and hundreds of fake credit cards in Wu's desk drawers.
The police are investigating whether Wu had accomplices in the office.
Police officers refused to reveal which post office Liu works for, and only said that the Directorate General of Posts had helped the police crack the case.
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