The SBS Charter Fraud Tracking Team began in 2015 in Hwagok-dong, Gangseo-gu, from the first generation of charter fraud, and since 2018, it has moved throughout the metropolitan area and systematically ate thousands of houses using a barge boss disguised as a rental business. We tracked and reported on the second generation of charter fraud. 



Regardless of generation, charter scams are valid for two years.

The deceased villa owner Kim Mo, who called himself 'Cheon Villa', and the 2400 organization that owned 3,500 villas collapsed without returning the deposit when the tenant's lease expired.

The prestige of charter scammers, which seemed to last forever, can't exceed two years.

After that, only dormant landlords, suffering tenants, and incompetent governments remain.


Appearance of variant charter scam


Charter fraud second-generation villa purchases began to soar in 2018 and peak in 2020.

Considering that charter scams are valid for two years, second-generation charter scammers must have reached their peak last year.

The more accurate meaning of the terminus is that the management authorities such as the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation, and the police penetrated the fraudulent methods and increased the level of pressure on the charter scammers, and in the market, tenants also became more vigilant, meaning that it became difficult for the charterers to operate as before. no see.



In other words, it also means that the time has come when a new charter fraud method beyond the second generation is needed for charter fraudsters.

In fact, from 2021, recruiters looking for homeless people from all over the country will start connecting with consulting firms that plan charter scams.



The gang of recruiters pursued by the SBS Charter Fraud Tracking Team set up a small office in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, and found mainly homeless people or people with bad credit in Busan, Gyeongnam, and Ulsan, etc., and made them presidents of pants by paying the cost of their names. (Some of the pants owners are There are also people who voluntarily provided names because they thought it was a real estate investment without receiving a name fee.)




Notably, these barge bosses, unlike before, only own one or two villas.

Also, they don't disguise themselves as rental operators, but cosplay as homeless people looking for a house in the real estate market.

When the second generation of charter scams reached the end, this time, they rescued a pants owner who cosplayed as a homeless person and handed over the name of up to two houses to carry out a variant charter scam.



If you can manage dozens or hundreds of bartenders in this way, you can push hundreds of villas to charter scams as before, share rebates, and make money.



Countermeasures ridiculed charter fraud


Why are you homeless?

And why is the name transferred only to two houses?

Existing charter scams are problems that have arisen because one or two bosses can wear the mask of a rental business and own hundreds of villas without a single penny.

For this reason, the authorities managed landlords who habitually did not return the deposit as so-called 'malicious landlords', and from 2022, the police were requested to investigate by analyzing their abnormal transaction history.

In other words, when the government tried to respond to charter fraud centered on malicious landlords, the charter fraudsters entered the homeless pants owner as a player on the fraud board.



Owners of non-homeowners only receive transfers of up to two houses, and do not register as rental businesses.

For this reason, even if the government has a superpower to disclose the list of malicious renters, it is not captured by the authorities' radar. 



Moreover, the mutant charter fraud crew does not follow the orders of the general manager.

It's not an organized crime that can be wiped out by just finding the head of the organization.

Instead, it operates as a stippled structure.

From a consulting company that plans charter fraud, to an intermediary distribution book that delivers information on the name of a homeless pants owner to them, and to a recruitment book that discovers homeless pants owners from all over the country, they share their roles and collect and sell according to their interests.



This has made it much more difficult for law enforcement agencies to track them down.

The Busan Metropolitan Police Agency's Violent Crime Investigation Unit, which caught a gang of 152 villas in the metropolitan area through charter fraud through 93 pants bosses at the end of last year, has not yet revealed who and how some of the pants bosses were recruited.



Can charter scams go away?


An official from the sales industry who responded to SBS's coverage explained, "The variant charter fraud is a breakthrough that the industry found by twisting its own methods as the government poured out countermeasures and started to manage it."

According to industry insiders, the number of houses damaged by variant charter fraud will reach as many as 10,000 in the metropolitan area alone.