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Investors are increasingly interested in 'NFT' non-fungible tokens that combine blockchain technology with various types of digital creations.

A group of people who used this to commit fraudulent activities were caught by the police.



Reporter Park Chan-beom reports.



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Police arrest a man wearing a hat on the street.



[Police investigator: An arrest warrant has been issued for NFT fraud charges.

In connection with this, an arrest warrant is now being executed.]



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26-year-old A, who was arrested, has registered 'NFT' for 10,000 cat character designs since November last year.



Some exchanges aimed at the fact that there is no separate authentication process when registering NFTs.



NFT, which means 'non-fungible token', is a virtual asset that contains data that proves that a digital creation is an original using blockchain technology.



It is emerging as a means of financial technology because it can be sold to others by setting the selling price.



Person A is accused of manipulating the NFT market price of a cat character with four accomplices and fled without giving the promised virtual currency to investors in return for the purchase of NFT.



[NFT Investment Victim: Now, as a reward for the investment, we gathered investors in such a way that they will now pay tokens that can be exchanged one-to-one with ○○○.



] ' It is believed that by raising the market price in this way, a profit of about 200 million won was left.



The cat character NFT, which initially sold for 36,000 won, soared to 500,000 won at one time.



[Bae Woon-cheol/Director of Blockchain Asset Research Center: There are various standard works for quality certification such as KS mark in the country, and such certification work needs to be done quickly on the NFT side.]



When investing in NFT, experts say He asked them to look at the history of the operation team, etc.



(Video editing: Kim Kyung-yeon, CG: Im Chan-hyuk, VJ: Kim Jong-gap)