Today (9th), the National Intelligence Service (NIS) warned that there are many cases of messenger phishing crimes impersonating the president and faculty members targeting international students in colleges and universities recently.
According to the National Intelligence Service, in January, a Chinese student, A, attending a university in North Chungcheong Province, received a KakaoTalk message from Mr. B, who introduced himself as the president of the university.
Mr. A was embarrassed by the contact from the 'president', but after confirming that Mr. B's KakaoTalk profile picture matched the face of the president found on the portal site, he came to believe that Mr. B was the actual president.
After that, Mr. B sent KakaoTalk to Mr. A several times to win his favor, and one day, he said, 'I asked for a translation of the thesis in China, but there was a problem' and asked for a deposit instead. I transferred money to my account and later realized it was messenger phishing.
The National Intelligence Service said, "The number of phishing impersonating celebrities such as the president of a specific group called a university school is increasing, rather than phishing targeting random, unspecified people. There were many cases where I couldn’t ignore it,” he explained.
The National Intelligence Service has also launched preventive activities to prevent such damage from phishing messengers in universities.
A meeting was held to check whether similar crimes occurred and to share relevant information for international students in charge of 10 universities in the North Chungcheong region where this incident occurred. Card news was also produced.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) urged ▲Beware of 'adding friends' of strangers on social networking services (SNS) ▲Maintaining an emergency contact network with the student in charge at the school ▲If in doubt, stop talking and then ask the person in charge.
(Photo=provided by the National Intelligence Service, Yonhap News)