A Taiwanese man in his 40s has been arrested for committing an online sex crime by luring a woman into a video interview on social media.
On the 14th local time, Taiwan Press Freedom Times and China Times reported that a man in his 40s working at an advertising company was arrested on charges of violating the ‘Law on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents’.
Foreign media called it the incident ‘Taiwan’s version of the nth room’, and revealed the technique carried out by the criminal Zhang (41).
According to the report, from 2017 to recent years, Jang has been in contact with victims by changing her voice to a female voice through SNS that allows video calls.
Jang secured the victim and seduced her by making a business card with a fake photo of a woman, presenting herself as a female manager or writer.
Then, he offered 3,500 yuan an hour (about 690,000 Korean Won), saying he was looking for a model in management.
Jang used the video interview as an excuse to get the victims to take off their clothes, secretly record it, and threaten to distribute the video on the Internet if they did not continue to provide indecent videos.
In order not to leave traces of his crimes for years, Mr. Jang has been avoiding the investigative network by changing his SNS account frequently, but the police finally managed to trace his ED after the report of five victims in their 20s who revealed their identities.
So last August, the police arrested Jang and confiscated a computer, a 1TB (terabyte) external hard drive, and two cell phones.
As a result of the police investigation, Jang revealed that he watched and searched a documentary about the ‘Nth Room Incident’ that happened in Korea, and recorded and analyzed fraud methods in his notebook.
It is estimated that at least 500 people in their teens to 70s are victims.
The police authorities emphasized that the video evidence seized from Mr. Jang was never dropped, and an additional damage report was requested.
Meanwhile, in December last year, Taiwan’s High Court overturned a 3-year and 4-month prison sentence and sentenced 20-year-old medical student A to 106 years in prison for threatening 80 minors and asking for nude pictures.
(Photo = China Times, Freedom Times)
