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I've been told a lot about fraud techniques that impersonate the prosecution or financial institutions, but these days, scams are increasing in which they send messages while calling them Mom and Dad and take personal information to steal money. Most of the victims are over the age of 50.
This is reporter Han Seung-goo.
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is a text message received by Kim Mo, 62, last April. She will tell you that she is using a different number temporarily because her phone screen is broken.
I have something to buy, but I can't verify it because it's a temporary number, so I sent a link to install the app and asked for a photo of my ID.
It was the same as her daughter's name and her tone of voice was similar, so Mr. Kim was not suspicious at all.
What Kim installed was a mobile phone remote control app.
[Mr. Lee / Victim's daughter: Credit card loan and cash service. About 10 million won was withdrawn in cash within two hours within a short period of time.] As a
result of the Financial Supervisory Service's tally, the total amount of voice phishing damage in the first half of this year was 84.5 billion won, a significant decrease from last year.
The number of voice phishing scams that offer loans or impersonate organizations such as prosecutors has decreased, while messenger phishing damage that impersonates family members has risen sharply to 46.6 billion won.
93.9% of victims are over 50.
Scammers remotely control cell phones to take money out of accounts, as well as take out loans and sell stocks.
[Kwak Won-seop / Financial Supervisory Service Illegal Financial Response Team Leader: I just gave my daughter or son an ID to help, but scammers open cannon phones, open accounts, get loans, and cancel deposits. In the meantime, the victim does not know at all.] The
financial authorities explained that even if it is a message from an acquaintance, you should try to make a direct call to a number you do not know, and that you should not store your ID photo or financial information in your cell phone.
(Video coverage: Oh Young-chun, Video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)