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As interest in cryptocurrency investments including bitcoin has increased recently, related scams are on the rise.
They dazzle you to make big money in a short amount of time, but you end up withdrawing money.
Reporter Jeong Da-eun reported on it.
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Kang received an SNS message saying that he will make an investment return through virtual currency.
He said that by investing in cryptocurrency according to his guide, he made big money in a short time.
[Mr. Kang Mo/Virtual Currency Investment Victim: If you put about 5 million won, you can give yourself a reading...
I (deposit) 8 million won.
They said it took about 35 minutes.
The amount of money was 7 million won.] When
Kang tried to withdraw money, a request to deposit a commission of tens of millions of won came back.
[Mr. Kang Mo/Virtual Currency Investment Victim: I need to open an account in Switzerland…
But it means that the cost of creating the account costs 30 million won.]
Even though I deposited the fee, the withdrawal did not work, and I appealed for the return of the principal, but in the end, all was over.
A, who invested in another cryptocurrency exchange, suffered similar damage.
Investing 5 million won not only makes 20 million won in two hours, but also guarantees the principal, but I couldn't withdraw.
[Mr. A/Virtual currency investment victim: 5 million won has risen to 14 million won.
Once put more 6,000,000 won 20 million won will have said no place for 6,000,000 won gets the withdrawal]
should warn not yet occurred, the actual investment, it can be turned out of the money we only operate with false Exchange Screen professionals.
[Minji Eom/Attorney: (Exchange) It is a scam in the way of manipulating the accounts of investing people internally, deceives investors, and steals money because you only need to create the homepage screen...
] The
increasing number of scams targeting people with no experience in cryptocurrency investment requires attention from investors.
(Video editing: Kim Sun-tak, VJ: Jeong Min-gu)