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corporate criminal gang that intercepted an advertisement for a business trip massage by receiving a deposit from hundreds of people as bait was caught by the police.
More than 300 people sent over 4 billion won, but it was a method of tearing off more money, saying that they had to deposit additional money to receive a refund.
Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam reports.
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I opened the paper box inside the confiscated bag, several cannon phones came out.
[(This is yours, is this?) It's not mine.] This is the
arrest site of a criminal gang that took money for a business trip massage ad as bait.
40-year-old A, a former gangster, ran more than 30 business trip massage phishing sites from March last year to August this year.
I didn't actually do a massage business, but I received an upfront payment in the name of a deposit.
If the sender who wanted to be deceived requested a refund of the deposit, he said that there was an error in the system and that the money could only be returned by making an additional deposit.
[Victor: Now, an error on the server occurred, so if you send it one more time, it will definitely (refund), so I sent another million won.
In order to find the money I put in.]
310 people were deprived of 4.3 billion won by this method, and one victim made a deposit of over 400 million won in 256 times.
[Kim Seon-gyeom/Head of Cyber Crime Investigation, North Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency: I was victim of a product fraud, but if I want to get the damage back, I have to make a deposit again (and there are similar cases).) Because this is high, you need to be careful.] The
police arrested 10 out of the 32 arrested and preserved 1,250 million won.
It is a measure that locks up the property of criminals so that the victim's loss can be preserved quickly.
Police are tracking about 10 additional suspects that have not yet been arrested, including in Korea and China.