In the aftermath of Corona 19, a voice phishing case targeting small businessmen and ordinary people seeking low-interest government loans has occurred.

The Financial Supervisory Service today (8th) said, "I am concerned that the pressure to relieve money pressure will increase the damage of voice phishing that has borrowed from the public by urgent psychology."

A total of 10 cases of voice phishing in government-funded loans identified by the Financial Supervisory Service until the last 6 days.


Among them, a total of 7 cases were reported in which the money was intercepted because the existing loan had to be repaid in order to receive a government-funded loan. The fraudster who introduced himself as a savings bank counselor was deceived by saying, "You can only make loans with low interest rates if your existing loan payments are repaid."

Two cases were requested to increase the credit rating. If you increase your creditworthiness by taking a certain amount of loan and repaying it, you are deceiving that more loans are possible.

There was also a case in which a person was robbed of money by stealing personal information after encouraging them to install a malicious application on their cell phone, saying that it is necessary for a face-to-face loan.

In response, the Financial Supervisory Service made it clear that "normal financial companies do not call an unspecified number of people to repay existing loans for government-funded loans."

In addition, he emphasized that government loans can only be applied and handled at branch offices of financial companies and regional centers affiliated with the government, and loans can only be paid in the name of an account or in the name of a financial company.

He warned that special attention should be paid to apps with unknown sources or suspicious Internet addresses that could be used to leak personal information.

This is 'News Pick'.

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