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There are people who ask for money in a group chat room called'Leading Room', asking for stocks that will rise a lot in the future.

But even if you just believe that and realize that you were belatedly deceived after sending the money, there is no way to stop it under current regulations.

As a result, there are even people who tell the bank that they have been scammed by voice phishing.



First, reporter Kim Jung-woo.



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Mr. A, who remitted 50 million won last month after being tricked by an illegal reading room company.




Realizing the problem, I asked the bank of the account to which I transferred the account to stop the payment.



However, he explained that he was voice phishing, not a reading room scam.



This is because of the current law that only allowed the account to be suspended for voice phishing crimes.



But a few days later, the bank, which confirmed that it was not a voice phishing crime, lifted the account payment suspension.



[Illegal Reading Room Victim: Did you say it was voice phishing?

We (bank) said that it would suspend payment, but investment fraud was rejected because it was not applicable.] As the



payment suspension was released, other victims' investment funds were also entered into the account of fraudulent companies.



Other than voice phishing, there is no way to freeze an account even if there is a suspicion of fraud, so victims have no choice but to say otherwise, breaking the law to save time.



[Illegal Reading Room Victim: (to the bank) because he said he was voice phishing (and) asked him to apply for suspension of payment.

It's a lie, but there's no way other than that.] A



bill has been proposed to make it possible to suspend the payment of accounts even when other fraudulent crimes other than voice phishing are suspected, but it has not yet crossed the threshold of the National Assembly.



[Park Yong-cheol/Professor at Sogang University Law School: (The Telecom Fraud Damage Reimbursement Act) was created only for voice phishing.



While the number of new types of fraud using social media is increasing day by day, laws and systems that can prevent damage are not keeping up with the reality.



(Video coverage: Kim Sung-il, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol, VJ: Park Hyun-woo)