Can someone say, EXPANDABLES??? How easily they still, all fall, due to their, UNDERDEVELOPED, PREFRONTAL cortex, their needs to belong, and falling prey to, peer pressure, and they still get screwed over, because of not having the foresight (that's developed in the late twenties, early thirties, maybe???), and they're, paying for their, youth, inexperience, and STUPIDITY! Off of the Newspapers, translated…
The Most Numerous of the Cases Involved Fraud, Hard to Know the Mastermind of the Scam Rings, the Delivery Drivers, Those Who Sold the Accounts are the Ones the Victims Go After for the Payments, Many of Whom Started Working Early to Pay up the Debts
The scams and the frauds are at an all-time high right now, there's a constant increase of number of cases caught by the police in Hsinbei City, from 121 suspects in 2021, rising up to 363 last year, it's a twofold growth in just three years. Fraud had become the most prevalent for the adolescent years, and the arrested are getting younger and younger, most had begun with the "introduction of work" by the peers, and as the individuals tasted the money, they'd gotten more of their peers involved, and, as they were caught, they can't pay for the massive amounts of payment by the victims, to the point of still paying off the debts after they'd turned eighteen and begun working.
Cheng (a false name) was from a lesser family, he'd longed to make money quickly, when he was fifteen and still in middle school, an older schoolmate asked him to help him make the deliveries of cash, he'd earned $500N.T.s for one errand, at first, he'd not known he was breaking the law, later, as he'd found out that he was running the errands for the scam rings, but because the ring leader promised him a percentage of the total, he'd formally become a scam artist.
the curves are turnning higher...graph from online
The risk of being a pickup delivery is extremely high, Cheng had been double-crossed before, and beaten up, incarcerated for more than twenty hours, then broken free, and in the same year, he'd committed the crimes a third time, and was caught by the police, sent into juvenile detention.
Cheng is from lesser family, the victims asked for $300,000 N.T., his parents couldn't pay, and no settlement was reached. Cheng turned all the wages he'd earned in the juvenile detention shelter shops to the victims, and, even as he was released, he'd still had a ton of debts left unpaid, he'd regretted it now.
The attorney, Lu told, it's hard to catch the masterminds of the scam rings, and normally, the delivery drivers, those who'd sold their accounts to the scam rings to use, became the ones the victims of the scams seeking the payments from, and, they may need to pay for millions of dollars for the civil claims. Lu also told, that the accomplices who are underage, the parents, as their legal guardians, are also responsible, unless the parents can provide evidence, showing that they're not at fault, but practically, this is, difficult to prove, and in the end, most of the parents of these, teenage criminals are held responsible for their underage minors' behaviors.
So, because of their under developed prefrontal cortexes, that's why the teens are easy target recruits for the scam artist rings, they're expandables, easily replaced, and when they get caught, they're the ones, paying for their, lack of judgment, giving in to peer pressure, getting enticed by money, yada, yada, yada, and this can't be avoided, because in our teenage years, we seek out that sense of belonging, and, our critical thinking skills are still, underdeveloped, that's why, we became easy targets for these, scam rings when we're, too young to know better!
