--- title: "Red Dragon – Organized Criminal Enterprise Profile" canonical: https://romancescamsnow.com/red-dragon/ type: post author: "SCARS Institute Editorial Team" published: 2023-10-13 modified: 2023-10-13 categories: ["♦ HOW SCAMMERS OPERATE", "2023", "Culture Of Scamming", "Cybercrime", "Insights", "Organized Crime"] summary: "" organization: "SCARS Institute - Encyclopedia of Scans - World's #1 Anti-Scam Website - Romance Scams NOW" organization_url: https://romancescamsnow.com/ llms: https://romancescamsnow.com/llms.txt --- # Red Dragon – Organized Criminal Enterprise Profile # Red Dragon ## Transnational Organized Criminal Enterprise Profile ### How Scammers Operate - A SCARS Insight ## The Red Dragon Group (RDG) Is A Transnational Criminal Empire Based In Taiwan But It Extends Its Reach Worldwide! The **Red Dragon Organized Crime Group** (also known as the Zhulian Gang 朱 418;幫) is a Taiwanese triad that was founded in 1968. It is one of the largest and most powerful triads in Taiwan, with an estimated 10,000 members. ## How Red Dragon Operates The Red Dragon is involved in a wide range of criminal activities, including extortion, gambling, drug trafficking, human trafficking and prostitution, and operating scam call centers around the globe. The Red Dragon group is known for its ruthlessness and its willingness to use violence. The gang has been involved in a number of high-profile crimes, including the 2004 murder of a Taiwanese legislator and the 2015 kidnapping of a Malaysian businessman. The Red Dragon Gang is also known for its international reach. The gang has operations in over 20 countries, including the United States, Canada, China, and Japan. The gang's international operations focus on drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking. ## The Red Dragon is a Threat to Public Safety Worldwide The Red Dragon Gang is a major threat to public safety in Taiwan and in other countries where it operates. The gang's involvement in drug trafficking, human trafficking, scams, and other serious crimes poses a significant risk to individuals and communities. Here are some of the Red Dragon Gang's criminal activities: - **Extortion**: The Red Dragon Gang extorts money from businesses and individuals in Taiwan and in other countries. - **Gambling:** The Red Dragon Gang operates illegal gambling dens and casinos. In Southeast Asia it also uses its casino complexes for its scam slave call centers. - **Drug trafficking:** The Red Dragon Gang traffics drugs in Taiwan and in other countries. - **Prostitution:** The Red Dragon Gang operates prostitution rings. - **Human trafficking:** The Red Dragon Gang traffics people for forced labor and sex work. This includes captives used for scam centers in several countries. - **Money laundering:** The Red Dragon Gang launders money from its criminal activities. ## Red Dragon (RDG) History The Red Dragon Organized Crime Group (RDG) is a Taiwanese triad that was founded in 1968. The RDG was originally a youth gang, but it quickly grew into a powerful organized crime syndicate. The RDG is now one of the largest and most powerful triads in Taiwan, with an estimated 10,000 members. The RDG is involved in a wide range of criminal activities, including human trafficking and scam slave contact centers. The Red Dragon Group has been involved in a number of high-profile crimes, including the 2004 murder of a Taiwanese legislator and the 2015 kidnapping of a Malaysian businessman. The Red Dragon is also known for its international reach. The RDG has operations in over 20 countries, including the United States, Canada, China, and Japan. Most of the RDG's international operations have focused on drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking, however, recently thy have also moved into the operation of scam slave contact centers such as the [one recently discovered in Peru](https://scamsnow.com/scam-slavery-comes-to-peru/). ### Here is a brief history of the RDG: - **1968:** The Red Dragon is founded as a youth gang in Taipei, Taiwan. - **1970s:** The Red Dragon begins to expand its operations and becomes involved in organized crime. - **1980s:** The Red Dragon becomes one of the most powerful triads in Taiwan. - **1990s:** The Red Dragon expands its international operations. - **2000s:** The Red Dragon continues to grow and expand its criminal activities. - **2010s:** The Red Dragon becomes a major target of law enforcement agencies in Taiwan and in other countries. If you are in Taiwan or in another country where the RDG operates, it is important to be careful about whom you trust and to avoid illegal activities. If you are threatened or harassed by the RDG, report it to the police. ### Crime History Highlights Here are some of the crimes that have been credited to the Red Dragon Organized Crime Group (RDG) in the last 5 years: - **2010:** In Peru, for example, “Red Dragon” has over time, expanded from extortion of local shopkeepers into human smuggling and, most recently, into the trafficking of narcotics and precursor chemicals from Asia. - **2012**: In April 2012, authorities in the prosperous and generally peaceful Caribbean nation of Belize intercepted a shipment of precursor chemicals sent from China and apparently bound for representatives of the Mexican cartel “Los Zetas.” The shipment—sufficient to produce an estimated $10 billion in methamphetamines—highlights growing criminal ties between China and Latin America that have accompanied, but, to date, have lagged behind the exponential growth of trade and investment between the two regions. - **2018:** The Red Dragon was involved in a drug trafficking ring that was smuggling methamphetamine into Taiwan from China. The ring was busted by the Taiwanese police, and several RDG members were arrested. - **2019:** The Red Dragon was involved in a prostitution ring that was operating in Taiwan's capital city, Taipei. The ring was busted by the Taiwanese police, and several RDG members were arrested. - **2020:** The Red Dragon was involved in a series of extortion and gambling raids in Taiwan. The raids were carried out by the Taiwanese police, and several RDG members were arrested. - **2021:** The Red Dragon was involved in a kidnapping and murder case in Taiwan. The victim was a businessman who was kidnapped by RDG members and held for ransom. The businessman was eventually killed by the RDG members, and his body was found in a river. - **2022:** The Red Dragon was involved in a series of money laundering activities in Taiwan. The RDG was using a variety of methods to launder money, including casinos, real estate investments, and cryptocurrency. ## Red Dragon Human Trafficking & Captive Scam Call Centers Just this month, 44 Asian migrants (43 Malaysians) were held captive as scam slaves by the Taiwanese criminal organization Red Dragon, who were used to extort money from victims abroad via telephone calls from Lima, Peru. This appears to be just one of the many centers this cartel operates. The Red Dragon has scam call centers in many other countries as well, including: - **Cambodia** - **Indonesia** - **Laos** - **Malaysia** - **Myanmar** - **Nigeria** - **Peru** - **Philippines** - **Thailand** - **Vietnam** The Red Dragon Group has established a number of scam slavery call centers worldwide, where they target people from other countries with fraudulent investment opportunities (Pig Butchering Scams) and phone scams. The RDG often uses violence and intimidation to force their victims to work in these call centers. The RDG also confiscates their victims' passports and other travel documents, making it difficult for them to escape. The Red Dragon's scam slavery call centers are a major source of revenue for the organization. The RDG is estimated to generate hundreds of millions of dollars from these call centers each year. The RDG's scam slavery call centers are a reminder of the importance of being aware of online scams and also that not all scammers voluntarily engage in scams. ## News & Information About The Red Dragon Syndicate - [Taiwanese 'Red Dragon' Crime Group Expands in Peru - The Rio Times (riotimesonline.com)](https://www.riotimesonline.com/taiwanese-red-dragon-crime-group-expands-in-peru/) - [List of Chinese criminal organizations - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_criminal_organizations) - [Organized Crime Exploits China’s Growing Links to Latin America - Jamestown](https://jamestown.org/program/organized-crime-exploits-chinas-growing-links-to-latin-america/) - [Triads, Snakeheads, and Flying Money: The Underworld of Chinese Criminal Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean (fiu.edu)](https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=jgi_research) ## More: - [Scam Slavery Comes To Peru – 43 Malaysians Freed From Scam Center (scamsnow.com)](https://scamsnow.com/scam-slavery-comes-to-peru/) - [Scam Slavery In Southeast Asia (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/scam-slavery-in-southeast-asia/) - [Pig Butchering Scams – A Chinese Perspective (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/pig-butchering-scams-a-chinese-perspective/) - [Scammers & Slavery (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/scammers-slavery/) - [Mexico Is Now The New Scam Battleground (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/mexico-is-now-the-new-scam-battleground/) - [The New World Order – Scamming in Southeast Asia (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/the-new-world-order-scamming-in-southeast-asia/) - [Evolution In Pig Butchering Scams – A Guest Editorial By Brad Gorka (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/evolution-in-pig-butchering-scams-a-guest-editorial-by-brad-gorka/) - [How To Avoid Pig Butchering Scams (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/how-to-avoid-pig-butchering-scams-video/) - [Pig Butchering Scam Templates Instantly Available To Scammers (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/pig-butchering-scam-templates-instantly-available-to-scammers/) - [SCARS Webinar: Romance Scams #1 – Pig Butchering Fraud & Military Impersonation Fraud (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/scars-webinar-romance-scams-1-pig-butchering-fraud-military-impersonation-fraud-video/) - [Pig Butchering Investment Scams – Official FBI Podcast (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/pig-butchering-investment-scams-official-fbi-podcast/) - [Sha Zhu Pan 殺主盤 Pig Butchering Romance/Investment Scams – Overview (romancescamsnow.com)](https://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/sha-zhu-pan-%e6%ae%ba%e4%b8%bb%e7%9b%a4-pig-butchering-romance-investment-scams-overview/)