Taipei (AFP) - Taiwan's fraud cases have fallen more than 50 percent in the four years since the island teamed up with China to fight growing Internet and telephone scams, the government said Friday.
A total of 17,744 cases were reported in 2013 involving Tw$3.77 billion ($126 million) in losses. That was down 54.3 percent from the 38,802 cases involving Tw$10.27 billion in 2009, according to data released by Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council.
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