[사회][제보는Y] 1.3 million won for phone bills that came out without my knowledge … can’t I get compensation?

[앵커]

An employee of a mobile phone store who committed a micro-payment scam after opening a mobile phone by stealing the name of an elderly person was caught by the police.

We did this to buy 10 million won worth of gaming items, but with the goal that seniors are unfamiliar with IT devices or complicated contracts.

Reporter Park Ki-wan reports.

[기자]

Grandpa Ahn Byung-ho, 88, makes about 30,000 won a month by abolishing it.

I was surprised to check my account recently.

My eyes are dark and I don’t know how to handle a smartphone so I just use the call function.

[안병호 / 경기 수원시 : 자꾸 통장에서 빠져나가 뭐가, 이게 세금도 아니고 뭔가(했지.) 보니까 그게 핸드폰이더라고.]

It turned out that the culprit was Mr. A, an employee of a cell phone store.

Mr. A joined his grandfather with two mobile phone operators.

He gave his grandfather a cell phone and took the other one.

And I bought game items with my mobile phone.

There were 5 people who suffered similar damage.

Most of them were people aged 70 and over, and the damage amounted to 10 million won.

[김영혜 / 경기 수원중부경찰서 수사과 경제2팀장 : 피의자 조사와 압수수색을 진행하여 피해자 4명을 추가로 인지하였고, 총 5명에 대한 사기와 사문서 위조 혐의로 지난 11월 19일 검찰에 송치하였습니다.]

However, there is little chance that the grandfather will be rewarded immediately.

The store owner handed the store over to someone else and disappeared.

[안병호 / 경기 수원시 : 사람이 바뀌었어. 한 달인가, 두 달 만에 바뀌더라고. 그러니 (지금 가게에서는) 난 모른다 이거야.]

The mobile operator is not an agency that has a formal contract with them and is not responsible for it.

[이동통신업계 관계자 : 판매점이라는 데는 저희하고 어떤 계약관계도 없고 아무런 연관이 없어요. 그래서 저희가 어떻게 직접적으로 할 수 있는 부분은 없고, 대리점이 있을 거니까 거기에 대해서는 간접적으로 이야기할 수 있는 거죠.]

Ahn Byung-ho’s grandfather unfairly exploits 40 times his monthly income.

Seniors unfamiliar with IT devices or complicated contract documents should go to a guardian when activating their mobile phones, he advises consumer-related civic groups.

YTN Park Ki-wan[[email protected]]it is.

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