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government has recently introduced measures to support small businesses one after another. First, it was decided to lower the card fee to 0.5% for small merchants with annual sales of 300 million won or less, and to relieve the burden of fees for merchants with 3 billion won or less according to their sales. In addition, the quarantine subsidy, which was set to give 1 million won each, will be provided immediately from the 27th of this month. However, there are scammers who send fake text messages saying they are giving support, so you have to be careful about this.



Reporter Lee Hye-mi covered the report.



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letter from a store that had lost customers due to the strengthening of quarantine measures was nothing but rain.



Loans of up to 200 million won at a low interest rate of 2%, turned out to be all fraudulent.



[Kim Se-jong / Small business owner: Every time I get a text message like this, I literally get annoyed. It's going to be hard right now, but it's an act of sticking a knife to people who are having this hard time.]



Just after the government announced last week that it would pay quarantine subsidies to small businesses, even text messages came saying that they would provide quarantine subsidies.



[Scammer informant: The media keeps talking about subsidies for small businesses. When I looked at the text form, it was like a text message from the government to give real subsidies.]



There is also a text that says 'advertisement' at the top as if it was sent from a financial institution, but it's hard to find out that it's nonsense until you look closely. .



[Scam text informant: I think they will be used by dialing a phone number, people who are really in a hurry.

I am also a person who is very thorough about things like this, but I was instantly drawn to it.] As much as



a broadcaster expressed his anger through SNS, the situation where texts pretending to be support poured out.



Personal information may be stolen or money may be stolen in the name of commission.



The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced that they would prevent being deceived by fraudulent text messages by posting examples of government-sent messages on the small business quarantine subsidy site.



(Video coverage: Park Dae-young, Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Park Soo-seon, VJ: Park Hyeon-woo)