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gang who has engaged in a sale scam of nearly 5 billion won for 7 years on an online used goods site was caught.
There are only 5,000 victims, and they are the ones who earned sympathy after being treated as a'faceless guy' in'SBS I want to know' last January.
This is JIBS reporter Ha Chang-hoon.
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Mr. A, who was using the internet trading site for second hand goods, had an absurd situation a while ago.
When I ordered and deposited the camera, I lost contact with the seller.
The sales article that applied for the used transaction was posted by a professional scam organization.
The scam organization, headed by 38-year-old Kang Mo, has been conducting fraud with the same technique since 2014.
The scam was very detailed.
When an order comes in after posting a fake sales article, the fake courier receipt and the fake business registration card registered on the portal site were also shown, giving relief.
[Second-hand transaction victim: I believed in it.
Because it is a company that has a phone number and is registered (at the portal site)...
.] I
haven't even received the deposit directly.
After receiving the money through the so-called homeworker's bankbook that they recruited, they received the remittance.
We also went through an additional cryptocurrency remittance process and even money laundered.
More than 5,000 victims have been identified so far, and the amount of damage for 7 years amounted to 4.9 billion won.
They even threatened by delivering large amounts of food to victims who reported or complained to the police, or by exposing personal information.
[Blackmail Victim: If someone presses'Thing-dong' (doorbell) outside, the door doesn't open at all.
I couldn't respond.
I'm scared.]
After two years of tracking, the police arrested 30 out of 40 online sales scams, and arrested 14 of them.