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Financial company closure due to ‘major fraud’
Dense enough to create dozens of people stealing a home page
Arresting a criminal is not easy
“I received 16 million won for investment fraud on your part. “
On July 23, the CEO Anmo, 50, of a private personal lending (P2P) company A, received an absurd KakaoTalk message from an employee of the company. It said, “Because the representative is a scammer and we are known as a scam company, act quickly.”
When I entered the link sent by the employee, the website masquerading as Company A and Naver Cafe were open since last June. Representative Ahn immediately posted a related notice on the company’s website and submitted a petition to the Jongno Police Station in Seoul.
Over the next two months, more than 30 victims reported being scammed in a place posing as Company A. The meeting of the victims identified the owner of the account captured by the police as the defendant and filed a complaint with the Attorney General Suwon District in Gyeonggi Province on the 23rd. Police believe the account holder is not the main culprit.
A screenshot of a fake website that spoofed the same name and representative name as an existing investment firm
Build Confidence and Sleep After Inducing Deposit
With the growing interest in financial technology, “leading fraud” is on the rise. The leading scam refers to cheating after receiving money by making an indirect investment in stocks or funds.
Scammers trick themselves into becoming investment experts, gaining the trust of victims, and inducing personalized advice through KakaoTalk. When victims recommend investing in stocks, currency derivatives, funds and gold, and victims refer to remittances, the result of manipulation is shown. There are also fake reviews on the homepage that made a profit.
When the victim requests withdrawal, he induces the 2nd and 3rd deposit in various names, and finally, after notifying that the loss of the investment has occurred, he goes underground.
Han Mo (63), who suffered damages of 300 million won by a scammer posing as Company A, said, “When I hear what I am talking about, I am misled because I have financial knowledge.” In June, there was a case where a victim of one of the major scams made an extreme decision.
In recent years, the technique has become sophisticated enough to rob dozens of people, including representatives, experts, and employees, and even create a website. Chae-Seung Lee, an attorney for O’Kims, a law firm representing victims of Company A spoofing fraud, said: “A company spoofing scammer steals the name of a company representative. existing company and accurately falsifies business registration certificates, professional investment verification certificates, domains, etc. It was difficult to capture, ”he said.
CEO Ahn said: “It was a company that was founded in April last year, but went through the closure procedure within a year (due to fraud). He said that “the intangible damage, such as about 800 million won in monetary losses and the loss of investor confidence, is indescribable.” In addition to Company A, it is known that the profiles of experts belonging to financial companies such as Company S and Company M were stolen on several occasions.
Arresting a criminal is not easy
It is known that the fraudulent company posing as Company A also forged a business registration card issued by the tax office and a professional investor certificate stamped by the director of the Korea Financial Investment Association.
Arresting a criminal is a difficult situation. This is because fraud occurs online and scammers avoid investigation by concealing their identities with cannon phones and cannon bank books.
An official at the Jongno Police Station in Seoul said: “The impersonation case of Company A has not been identified as a suspect.” “Meanwhile, the scammers remove the old home page and the cafe and create a new home page,” he explained.
In the case of read fraud, it is also difficult to stop paying the bill, which prevents the withdrawal of the account used for the fraud. This is because the suspension of payments is limited to existing financial scams, such as voice phishing. Kang Hyeong-gu, secretary of the Financial Consumers Union, said: “The more people get used to life not face to face and the more difficult the economy, the more likely it is that online scams will increase. Said.
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