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gang who cheated on an internet café to gather people and make big money easily was caught by the police. They dazzled people by inflating the number of members and posting false reviews of successful investments, and dozens of others were harmed.
This is KNN reporter Tae-hoon Lee.
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is an internet cafe that promises to make money in the name of financial technology.
It means to make money instead of betting on illegal gambling sites that predict whether the exchange rate will rise or fall.
As you can see, on the bulletin board of the cafe there are photos of luxury foreign cars or bundles of money, along with articles saying that they made a lot of money.
However, all of these articles were fake.
It abuses the sentiment of people who want to make money amid the investment craze.
There were 52 victims, including office workers, housewives, and public servants, and the amount of damage amounted to 770 million won.
[Investment Fraud Victim: Thank you for watching the profits, I read the thank you articles and joined the cafe. The amount of damage is about 100 million. I went to a psychiatrist to take medicine for a month.] In
order to give the victims a sense of trust, A, who led the scam, bought hundreds of hacked accounts and inflated the number of cafe members.
Most of the money intercepted was wasted with gambling funds.
[Jean jongwoo / Busan retardant police cyber crime investigation team leader: was profitable, to withdraw this money is required fee or deposit, it was determined that induced the 2nd and 3rd deposit in this way]
of between police district seonhubae We arrested 11 investment scams and arrested 6 others, including Mr. A, and urged us to be cautious of investment fraud based on financial technology.
(Video coverage: Park Young-jun KNN)