The damage of a new crime based on love is getting serious.
SBS'I want to know it' aired on the 13th,'What is your name? -'Romance Scam' was illuminated with the subtitle of'Who are they on SNS?'
A man who sent an SNS to a woman who wanted to be a friend appeared. He introduced himself as a Korean-American who had dispatched troops to conflict areas abroad. At first, I started the conversation with a light question, and then I asked about the person's personal information.
And the man confessed about a life that is more organized than his movie, and after a while, he confessed his love to the other person. Also, I made a video call saying that I wanted to be by my side and continued to send sweet messages of love.
Then one day, the man asked the other woman to request a vacation from her boss, and his boss asked the woman to pay 50 million won for vacation. After a while, the commander sent a photo of a man who was hospitalized, saying that the man was shot during a covert operation and needed surgery, and demanded the cost of the operation. Accordingly, the woman spent 100 million won for her beloved man. Later, I thought it was a scam, but it was caused by the feeling of love, so I couldn't tell anyone about this situation.
And there were others who suffered similar damage to this woman. Only 4 victims met by the production crew. They all fell in love with a man through social media, and later suffered financial damage. And the men who whispered love to them all had different names, but the photos were all the same, so it was shocked.
The crime that women have committed is'Romance Scam'.
This was a term referring to a criminal act in which a'credit fraud' was conducted using the favors of the victims after approaching with the pretense of a rational interest.
In addition, the offender asked for a video of a part of the body saying that he wanted to share love with the victims, and was even engaged in'Bodycam Fishing', which even threatened with this.
The production crew approached the women by sending a message to his account to uncover the identity of the perpetrator who took millions of won to hundreds of millions of won.
And after a while, the man contacted the production crew.
He identified himself as a Korean man working in Iraq and began digging for personal information, confessing to his life-long life.
And after finding something in common in the conversation, the title gradually changed after a while, and a few days later, he finally found his princess and said that he would become a prince.
Four days after he started contacting the production crew, he tried to open an account, saying that while working in Afghanistan, he received compensation at once because he did not receive proper compensation.
They asked the bank official to copy the contents they wrote and send an e-mail to the bank official, and the production crew received a message from the bank official Herbert to deposit 2 million won to a Korean bank to activate the account.
Accordingly, the production crew tried to make a direct call to Herbert, who is in Atlanta.
Having spoken with a unique pronunciation, Herbert showed confusion and asked why he was trying to interrogate him.
And it wasn't a scam and he changed the word that he was in California.
The production crew contacted the bank and inquired directly about a person named Herbert.
Then, the official said that it is not possible to search by name alone, and that if it is an official letter or e-mail, you should check both the first and last names.
He also warned that his bank wouldn't tell him to send money to another bank account.
Accordingly, the production team traced the emails sent to them through experts.
And when the sending IP was tracked, it turned out that the mail was sent from Ghana, Africa.
And he contacted the account holder of the domestic account asking for remittance, but couldn't get a reply.
In addition, it was found that the accounts remitted by the victims were different from the country, the name of the bank, and the account owner.
And the production crew tracked the account opener and reached an account holder in Thailand.
The account holder, who responded to the interview, said that Koreans had previously made a deposit to the account.
And he explained that they were all strangers he didn't know.
In addition, he returned to Korea last year after working at a Korean massage shop for 4 years, but when a friend he learned through social media said he wanted to buy a Korean account and said that he could not sell his Korean account, he ran out of his remittance limit and asked for help with the remittance. Thai women said they helped without compensation.
Accordingly, the production crew contacted a Thai woman's social media friend, but after a while, he cleared the traces of the social media and disappeared.
A man who introduced himself to Korean-Americans as performing a special mission in a conflict area.
He was committing crimes in Ghana, Africa by sending e-mails to remittance under the guise of a courier company or bank, and receiving crime proceeds from accounts in Thailand and the Philippines, leaving traces of newcomers all over the world.
The production crew gathered the victims in one place to uncover the man's identity.
The victims were amazed at the truth revealed by sharing the data they had gathered in one place.
To him, who approached women with a total of three names, the victims asked the same question and responded at the same time.
Then they came up with a variety of answers almost at the same time.
And one of them asked, "Why are you texting me with two different profiles?"
He was the same person who introduced him as Moon Ji-ho to the victim and Kim Hyun-moon to the production crew.
Subsequently, the victims asked for explanation by sending the content of the perpetrator's conversation under a different name.
Then one of them called Seongmun called.
When he doubted himself, he said, "A lot of people steal my photos."
And this time, another man made a video call.
At this time, his public appearance was the same as the video that other victims had already seen, causing shock.
The barge that dubbed a video that had already been sent to other victims several times.
I lost words to the victims in a terrifying situation.
Afterwards, the production team tried to talk to the barge several times, but he repeatedly hung up the phone.
And at the request of the production crew to reveal the truth, he said that he was not Korean-American, but was from Africa, was an orphan, and committed a scam to support his two younger brothers.
And when he said he was going to find you, he said, "Come to Angola, you idiot." He mocked the victim and the crew and disappeared.
During the interview, the crew contacted the real protagonist of the photo the perpetrators used as their social media profile photos.
He, who is the protagonist of the real picture, complained that he was under great stress from this incident.
He also said that I am an American soldier, the son of an ordinary family with all of his family members alive.
They also said that they have never been dispatched to conflict areas.
And he said, "It's a 2015 video. The uniforms have changed now" about the video the victims watched.
Also, Mr. Moon said that there had been a strange thing five years ago.
He said, "From one day, Africans began to follow," he said. After that, the number of accounts with his face as a profile increased, and the victims began to contact him.
Accordingly, the protagonist of the photo learned that her photo was stolen and used in the scam.
In 2017, a foreign gang who committed a romance scam crime was arrested.
These were Nigerians.
And two years later, in Seoul, another criminal organization with a similar technique was arrested.
There was an African organization arrested as a business scam in 2016, and there were others who committed crimes by inheriting this criminal technique through their arrest.
All of them from West Africa enjoyed a luxurious life by taking the money of the victims.
And it turns out that only Eric, the general manager, was arrested and sentenced to eight years, while the rest of the party was found to be free from arrest.
Accordingly, the production crew followed these members.
Eric, the head of the Korean branch, who met with the production crew, protested harshly, saying he knew nothing about it.
Subsequently, the production crew contacted James, who was the action book.
However, he denied that he had nothing to do with network scams.
This organization, made up of West Africans, was characterized.
They developed from asking the UK or the US for help for money laundering to a romance scam, and this crime, which was initially targeted by the English-speaking world, is now spreading to Asia and Europe, making international victims.
And during the interview, the production crew was able to see various cases of damage from each country.
During the interview, the production crew caught the impersonation of Mr. Moon, who appeared again.
However, he denied his crimes, and mocked the production crew and victims with terrible intimidation and insults.
In the photo, the real owner reported that he had been victimized several times, but he was unable to get help and was unable to explain the situation to the victims who have spread all over the world for a long time. Asked.
The broadcast also advised that there are many victims whose photos or videos were stolen on romance scams, and that photos or information that were inadvertently uploaded could be a tool for crime.
In addition, he emphasized that the video used in the romance scam should be released, and be wary of contacting with a video that has no sound or does not match the video and audio.
During the interview, the production crew met another person who traced the identity of the criminal organization.
An Australian reporter said he was shocked to see teenagers who went directly to Ghana, Africa to track down scammers and conduct romance scams against older men.
Those who do romance scams were called Cafe Boys or Yahoo Boys.
And the reporter said there was a reason they approached the target in a similar way.
"I saw what I called a format, and it was selling fake social media profiles, photos of soldiers in military uniforms on the battlefield, and so on. So tricky stories could be made by scammers," he explained.
And the crew found a site that easily sold these formats on the portal site.
This site not only described the criminal format, but also detailed criminal know-how, such as the technique of evading the pursuit.
In addition, the production crew was able to interview the fraudulent format seller through the interview.
He said that he collected people to be impersonated on social media by character and then made a crime script.
The photographs and videos of those who pretended to be Mr. Moon, and the story of the strange fate were all in the format sold.
And experts said that there are notable expressions among their formats.
Experts say, "Did you eat? What did you eat? This is a question that foreigners don't ask. This is one of the many questions that Koreans ask, and there will be members who know Korean culture well indirectly or directly." did.
And one of the informants insisted that there were Koreans among the people involved in romance scams against Koreans.
And the fraudulent format seller knew it was a crime, but he was no longer contacted by saying that he was just doing money.
Romance scam victims turned out to have no way of getting relief.
In the case of romance scams, they are not subject to suspension of payment by banks.
Voice phishing can be remedied under special laws, but romance scams, a similar crime, were difficult to rescue.
In response, the expert said, "It seems that there is a tendency to hold personal responsibility as the story of romance is heard," and said, "The interpreter should initiate an investigation and judge that it can be done, but the connection is lacking now."
Another expert said, "We are doing research to enact a law on all sides of the people's livelihood by subdividing fraud to create a suitable sentencing standard, and to include a damage center for trauma recovery, and education to prevent fraud in compulsory legal education. Explained.
In addition, the police announced that they expanded the cyber economic crime investigation team in February this year to respond to the increasingly damaging romance scam.
He explained that the investigation was difficult, but clarified, and that he would one day arrest the real criminals.
Finally, the victims said that they responded to the interview in the hope that victims like themselves would not appear any more.
They added, "I was beaten because I didn't know. So, please know about this crime and be alert."
And during the interview, the scammer who extorted hundreds of millions of won by the victim changed his name only and said that he wanted to be a friend to the victim.
(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jeong)