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A man in his 20s who participated in the crime by carrying a repeater for telephone financial fraud, so-called 'voice phishing', was caught by the police.
Gyeonggi Goyang Police Station booked a man in his 20s who was active as a voice phishing gang member and carried a bag containing 30 cell phones on charges of violating the Telecommunications Business Act.
The police obtained intelligence that someone was riding the subway with a voice phishing repeater and arrested Mr. A as a current criminal at Hwajeon Station on the Gyeongui Central Line at around 8:30 am yesterday (4th).
A repeater is a device that changes an overseas phone number to a domestic one by inserting a SIM card opened in Korea into a portable terminal, and is often abused for voice phishing crimes.
According to the police, in September of last year, Mr. A received an offer from a voice phishing organization to make money by purchasing several used mobile phones and going around by subway every day.
Afterwards, Mr. A participated in voice phishing crimes by traveling around the metropolitan area on the subway with a bag containing a mobile phone over the next four months.
In the police investigation, Mr. A is known to have stated, "I received 20,000 to 300,000 won per day," and "I did not know anything about the voice phishing organization by talking to it through telegram."
A police official said, "In the past, if a repeater was installed in a specific place, recently, in order to avoid the investigation network, there are many cases where the repeater is loaded into a car and moved directly to avoid the investigation network." Expected"