The court sentenced a woman in her 20s to a suspended prison sentence for defrauding about 14 million won by abusing the advance payment system provided by an internet shopping mall.
According to the legal community today (15th), the 4th detective of the Seoul Southern District Court (Judge Kim Dong-jin) sentenced A (29), who was accused of fraud, to 10 months in prison and 2 years probation, and ordered 120 hours of community service.
Mr. A is accused of defrauding the goods by not actually sending the goods after refunding the goods ordered from the Internet shopping mall from August 2020 to November of last year.
He ordered a product in front of the elevator on each floor of the building where he lived and received delivery, but it was investigated that he canceled the order and received a refund and did not return the product.
The items that Mr. A ordered and did not return ranged from 7,000 won worth of tuna liquid to 290,000 won worth of cosmetics.
In this way, Mr. A committed a total of 833 crimes, and the amount she defrauded amounted to about 14 million won.
If you request a return of a delivered order product for reasons such as 'missing/losing/defective', the shopping mall refunds or resends the same product before the returned product is received, but this is an abuse of the system.
To Mr. A, who stood in court, the judge pointed out, "The number of crimes is so high that a total of 833 times, and the crime is bad because the method of crime is bad."
However, he explained the reason for the sentencing, saying, "It is a first-time offender with no criminal record, and the victim's company compensated for the damage and agreed amicably."
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