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was counted that the number of people in their 20s who commit insurance fraud increased significantly.
There were many cases of intentional traffic accidents due to conspiracy by several people, but last year, 18,000 people in their 20s were caught.
This is reporter Jeon Yeon-nam.
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As soon as you see that the car in front of you, who has started turning left, has left the designated lane and crossed over to the side, it accelerates and hits you behind you.
Seniors and juniors in their hometown in their early 20s deliberately caused an accident while trying to earn pocket money.
The main culprit was sentenced to prison for over 60 accidents and over 600 million won in insurance money.
As soon as you see a car entering the roundabout quickly changing lanes, the car behind you crashes into it.
Last year, the number of people in their twenties caught trying to scam car insurance in this way exceeded 15,000 for the first time ever.
There were many cases where the target was a car that violated traffic laws and was unlikely to be reported to the police.
In addition, I purposely took friends and other people on board to get as much insurance money as possible.
[Lee Yong-seop / Insurance Fraud Investigation Team Team Leader, Non-life Insurance Association: Organizational intentional traffic accidents are on the rise through a public contest using SNS centered on young people.
In the form of a public offering, they get together once, cause an accident by fraud, and break up with each other...
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There were a lot of cases where they had an accident without a license or under the influence of alcohol and then hid the insurance money or changed drivers after an accident.
Last year, 97,000 people were caught with all insurance fraud, including auto insurance, of which 18,000 were in their 20s, accounting for 1 in 5 people.
Insurance fraud in their 20s is increasing by more than 15% every year.
(Video editing: Lee Jung-taek, CG: Shim Soo-hyun, Park Cheon-woong)