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The police arrested the delivery company drivers who secretly installed a voice phishing (telephone financial fraud) repeater in a motel in downtown Seoul.
Seoul Yeongdeungpo Police Station forwarded 28-year-old Mo Shin and 38-year-old Mo Kim, who installed 16 voice phishing repeaters in 8 motel rooms for a month from November last year, to the prosecution on the 26th of last month on charges of violating the Telecommunications Business Act. .
A repeater is a device that converts a foreign phone number to a domestic one by inserting a domestically opened SIM chip into a portable terminal, and is often used in voice phishing crimes.
Shin and his crew went to and from the motel wearing helmets and hid repeaters behind refrigerators or mirrors in rooms to avoid suspicions from guests and owners.
Voice phishing damages resulting from the crime amounted to 120 million won.
After two months of interrogation and investigation, the police arrested them at a motel in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 17th of last month and are also pursuing the general who provided the repeater.
Park Beom-ho, the head of the phone financial fraud investigation team at the Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Seoul, said, "If you receive a phone call suspected of voice phishing or find suspicious objects such as repeaters, please report it to the police immediately."