Working with Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau's (CIB's) "165 Anti-Fraud Program", Whoscall blocked more 52.3 million scam messages, and 13.1 million scam calls, last year in Taiwan alone."A problem that is not only going to spread out in Taiwan, but also in Asia Pacific, and if they don't take care of it, very soon it will be in Europe and the US."Such is the extent of the criminal networks behind the scamming that some Taiwanese gangs have opened up operations overseas.It's an effective way for the fraudsters to find the working numbers of people who are prepared to answer their phone despite not knowing who is ringing them."When the [fake] clerk from E.Sun Bank called, he knew the whole story, he told me how to get compensation from E.Sun," Mr Lin said in his video."