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On the 7th, in a residential area of Daegu, the police captured Mr. A, who had intercepted 7 million won by cheating a man in his 70s. On the 3rd, Mr. A also intercepted cash worth 28 million won from the victim. Mr. A, who claimed to be a state agency, suffered the same harm more than once. Despite police crackdown, face-to-face fraudulent voice phishing crimes that directly contact victims and intercept money show no signs of abating.
The Daegu Provincial Police Agency announced on September 17 that it had arrested 18 voice phishing suspects for face-to-face diversion for two weeks and arrested 11 of them. The remaining seven are investigating crimes against women. This is the result of an intensive crackdown by the Daegu Police Agency that began on Day 1 with the introduction of 500 homicide detectives into the jurisdiction. These 18 people were found to have committed 72 crimes across the country, including Busan and Gyeongnam, beyond Daegu. Considering that an average of 20 million won is incurred per crime, the estimated damage is expected to exceed 1 billion won.
Within the police, voices say it is important for citizens to learn the latest voice phishing techniques to prevent harm as well as repression. Recently, despite the arrest of a voice phishing criminal who intercepted money, there was a case of protests saying, “Why am I interfering with my personal affairs because I need a loan?” Frontline police said the core of a face-to-face crime is the use of a psychology that makes it difficult to think that the person who gave the money after meeting in person is a criminal.
Face-to-face voice fraud starts when you reply to bogus text messages like “low interest rate loans are possible”, “low credit scores can borrow too.” In recent years, when non-face-to-face transactions have increased due to the protracted coronavirus, methods have been expanded, such as mentioning payment for goods or returning courier / mail shipments.
When it is requested to select an Internet address (URL) attached to the text or to install a remote control application, it is mainly voice phishing. At the time the app is installed, the call to 112 is also a method of reassuring the victim by intercepting the call from the criminal voice phishing side and posing as the police.
Face-to-face fraudulent voice phishing is a method that has changed from the account transfer crimes using cannon bank books that were popular in the past. As the crackdown through the Cannon Passbook intensified, a method was introduced that was difficult to trace. Most collection books that accept cash on the spot participate in the crime by seeing a part-time job advertisement for 100,000 to 400,000 won per case disguised as a ‘loan company debt collection’ posted by a criminal organization. At the time the collection books were stopped, the superior organization that ordered the crime deleted all messages and blocked them, making it difficult to follow up.
According to statistics from the Daegu Police Agency, a total of 667 voice phishing offenses occurred from January to the end of August, and the damage was 14.1 billion won. The police plan to use an international criminal investigation team to investigate foreign-based voice phishing organizations in the near future. Homicide detectives, along with the smart crime investigation team, continue the intensive crackdown at the national level.
“Official institutions such as government agencies and financial institutions do not ask for cash under any circumstances,” said Jae-wook Lee, intensive chief of the Daegu Provincial Police Agency.
