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A foreign couple was arrested by the police
for exchanging and remitting money intercepted by the voice phishing
organization from the victims for a fee.
The Namyangju Nambu Police Station in
Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, announced on the 27th that they had arrested a
foreigner in his 40s and his wife B in their 30s, who set up an illegal money
changer and remitted money from a voice phishing organization abroad.
The couple, who are married, have opened
an illegal money exchange office in Seoul since May and hired two foreigners to
collect money from voice phishing victims, or exchanged about 1 billion won of
the victims’ money from other collection agencies into Chinese yuan 16 times.
He is accused of sending money overseas and collecting fees.
The police arrested and investigated five
people including the collection and delivery methods of the voice phishing
organization that had stolen about 200 million won from the victims since early
October.
In the process, they uncovered the crimes
of the couple in charge of overseas remittances and returned the 125 million
won they were keeping to the victims.
The foreign couple is expected to be
sentenced to more than two years in prison and will be forced to leave the
country upon completion of their sentence.
Penalties for voice phishing crimes
Voice phishing crimes are severely
punished in Korea. You can think of it as simply taking someone else's money
and passing it on to other one, but the court applies the crime of fraud or
aiding fraud to a job that is nothing more than an errand for money.
The court judges that anyone who runs the
money errand can know that this is related to fraud by looking at the ▲irregularities
in the employment process, ▲work
method, and ▲level of remuneration.
Voice phishing criminals usually do non face-to-face
interviews and ask for personal information in order to find a collector who
collects money from cheating people.
Anyone in Korea should be skeptical of
this situation, as it is rare to hire people without seeing them in person.
Foreign residents should not be involved in voice phishing crimes under any circumstances. In particular, lending ID cards such as bankbooks or alien registration cards is very dangerous. It can be related to crime at any time.
Reporter Song Haseong
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