Police have issued warnings against traveling to Cambodia or Thailand when others have paid for the travel fare in light of increasing cases of teenagers, middle-aged and elderly people being tricked into traveling to these countries and then being held for ransom.
Recounting their ordeal, one victim on Monday said she was asked by a friend to visit Thailand and help set up a bank account there, for which they would be paid NT$70,000 to NT$100,000 (US$2,136 to US$3,051).
The victim said she had not found it strange that her friend was not coming along on the trip, adding that when she arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Dec. 3 last year, she found that she was part of a tour group of eight passengers, five of whom were young men.
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