Taiwan suspects of largest phone scam nabbed

Five Taiwan men, assigned to the mainland to collect money from telephone scams, were arrested for their role in the single largest telephone scam in the mainland of 10.7 million yuan, police said yesterday.

Haidian district police said four suspects arrested in Jiangsu province were transferred to Beijing police on Dec 24. Another suspect arrested in Guangdong province will be brought back to Beijing soon.

On Nov 3, a woman in Haidian district called the police and said her family was cheated out of 10.71 million yuan.