A Taiwanese county government's own anti-corruption chief was tricked out of NT$1.37 million by a fake investment group, and the courier who collected the cash has now been jailed.

• Yunlin County's ethics office head clicked a fake investment post on TikTok and was pulled into LINE chats and a bogus "investment company" group promising guaranteed profits.
• He wired part of the money, then handed NT$950,000 in cash to a young woman who showed up at his official residence with a forged staff ID and a fake deposit slip.
• She passed the cash up the chain and was paid only NT$4,000; the court gave her a year and a half in prison.
• The man whose account took the first transfer got a heavier sentence of two years and four months, and his appeal was thrown out.

Outlook: Taiwan's courts keep coming down hard on low-level cash mules while the organizers behind these social-media investment scams stay out of reach.