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Fraud crimes that lure people to fake cryptocurrency trading sites to steal money have been on the rise recently.

It is a method of approaching people through a chatting app and then tricking them into making a lot of money by investing, but when similar damage continued, the police launched an investigation.



Reporter Min-Jun Kim was the sole reporter.



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In December of last year, Mr. A met Mr. B, a Singaporean financial expert, on a chatting app.



As his acquaintance grew stronger, Mr. B showed the photos of the money he made in virtual currency trading and said that he could make a profit by investing on the virtual currency trading site he used.



As Mr. B said, Mr. A bought bitcoin from the virtual asset exchange and transferred it to the virtual currency wallet of the site.



Profits continued to increase, and investments continued to increase.



[Mr. A's nephew: (investment amount) 80 million won, 90 million won So I continued to increase metallurgy.]



I tried to withdraw money thinking that I had made enough profits, but it was impossible.



The customer service center told me that I had to pay taxes and a deposit to withdraw.



[A's nephew: Pay tax when the amount is full...

.

If you do not deposit an additional deposit, the account will be frozen.]



In this way, the amount sent to the site reached 1.2 billion won.



Although it was later realized that it was a scam, Mr. B disappeared, and the site was also closed.



This is a cryptocurrency trading site in question.



It is currently difficult to access.



When Mr. A's nephew suspected that his uncle had been scammed and asked about Mr. B's identity through a mobile messenger, he even threatened.



[Mr. A's nephew: I know everything about your photo, name, date of birth, and even the company (be careful).

In the end, he said to me, 'I'm going to kill you'...

.]



The police launched an investigation after six victims, including Mr. A, filed a complaint.



[Go Seong-rok / Attorney: The site itself is manipulated (deceived).

Invest in an exchange you've never heard of, or when they say you're signing a contract, never do it (you shouldn't).]



(Video coverage: Park Dae-young, Kim Se-kyung, Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Kim Jun-hee)