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I've told you several times about the so-called stock-reading scam, which takes investment money and intercepts it with the promise of high returns. Recently, a chat room has appeared that has attracted people to say that they will control the cryptocurrency price. There are many victims.



Correspondent Kim Jung-woo.



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Mr. A was invited to an anonymous group chat room last September.



I thought it was a leading room to select stocks, but the management team publicly advertised that they would get hundreds of percent profit by manipulating the price of a specific cryptocurrency.



I bought 500 million won and waited for it to surge, but the price of virtual currency plummeted and I lost more than 90% of my investment in 20 days.



[Mr A/Victim: It was 1,200 won, but that day it became 700 won, 400 won, and 200 won. (Reading room crew) Don't worry. I'll raise (price) in a few days in a few months.] The



management made sure to report daily transactions to prevent investors from withdrawing their money.



[Mr B/Victim: I want to capture and send (transaction details) every day. After buying, capture and send. You have to check the quantity.]



The daily remittance limit of the bank linked to the exchange is 1 million won, and he taught me how to increase it expediently and encouraged me to get a loan.



[Virtual currency reading room per day: It is a loan secured by selling to a securities company. Now, if you apply, you can turn your deposit account into cash, so please try it (investment) with a large proportion.]



The victims went to the office address given by the management, but the company itself was not there.



[(Is there ○○○ investment securities on the 15th floor?) ○○○ investment securities are not in our building.]



Victims suffered when a group who claimed to be the management team first bought a specific virtual currency and then the price surged due to the buying force. I suspect it was sold.



More than 1,000 victims were identified by reporters.



It is estimated that losses ranged from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of won.



[Park Seong-woo / Attorney: The point actively induced to raise the transaction limit in order to bring in as much money as possible.

Depending on the case, it can be applied as a crime of fraud as stipulated in the Criminal Act or the Specific Economic Crime Act.] About



10 victims requested the police to investigate the chat room management team.



(Video coverage: Oh Young-chun, Yoo Dong-hyuk, Jo Chun-dong, video editing: Park Ki-duk, VJ: Park Hyeon-woo)