<Anchor> After
posting fake reviews about making big money along with photos of foreign cars and bundles of money, the police were caught by the police who gathered investors and engaged in a scam. Dozens of people, including housewives and officials, were deceived.
This is KNN reporter Tae-hoon Lee.
<Reporter> It
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 high-end 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 and took 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.
[Jong-Woo Jin/Head of Cyber Crime Investigation Team, Yeonje Police Station in Busan: It was confirmed that it was profitable, a fee or a deposit is required to withdraw this money.
The police arrested 11 investment scams among seniors and juniors in the neighborhood, arrested six others, including Mr. A, and urged them to beware of investment fraud based on financial technology.