[사회]”10 names in the same phone number” … 300 cases of fraudulent reports of used transactions captured

[앵커]

Some of you may have experienced second-hand scams asking for an online prepayment and then hiding without sending the product.

A case of fraudulent activity was recently detected by repeating the same phone number to 10 different names.

Only 300 damage reports were received, and the amount of damage was over 200 million won.

This was reported by the journalist Dong-jun Ahn.

[기자]

On the 13th, Mr. A discovered a cell phone for sale that was recently sold out on a second-hand exchange website.

The seller is Mr. Yoon, born in 1991.

I checked the residence card at a lower price than the original price and made a deposit right away, but after receiving a text message that an invoice would be sent, the contacts were cut.

[A 씨 / 중고 거래 사기 피해자 : 신분증을 당당하게 보내주고…. 중고나라 카페에서 거래했던 내용이 쭉 있는데 몇 년 전부터 늘 활동을 해오신 분이길래 믿고 거래를 했던 거죠.]

When I searched the damage report site for suspected fraud, there were already several cases of Mr. Yoon.

But something strange was discovered.

Yoon’s cell phone number matched exactly the number of another suspected second-hand scammer.

[A 씨 / 중고 거래 사기 피해자 : 계좌번호나 휴대전화 번호의 특정 번호가 계속 반복적으로 돼 있거나 또 휴대전화 번호가 제가 당한 저한테 사기를 친 사람이 다른 사람의 휴대전화로 등록된 경우도 있었고….]

As the reporters collected and analyzed the damage cases, it was determined that the scammer committed the crime by dialing 53 phone numbers with 10 names.

Ten numbers with the same back digit were also confirmed and it is assumed that they deliberately created and used the same back number for the purposes of the offense.

When receiving money transfers from victims, they alternated between 6 and 29 bank accounts.

As a result of the tally of the Internet fraud damage report site “The Cheat”, there have been nearly 300 reports of damage done by these 10 people and the damage was over 200 million won.

They mostly used expensive items like cell phones as bait, but they didn’t choose small items like meal vouchers.

[B 씨 / 중고 거리 사기 피해자 : 당장 다음 주 아버지 생신인데 또 심지어 이번에 환갑이셔서 아버지한테 고르라고 했거든요. 거기가 제일 좋다고 하셔서 아버지가 고르셨는데 진짜 황당했죠.]

Most of the victims sent money without a doubt just by looking at their ID documents and photos of the proof of the goods, and then found themselves lost.

[이은희 / 인하대학교 소비자학과 교수 : 애플리케이션에 지금 현재 있는 판매자가 조금 문제가 있는 판매자인가 아닌가를 애플리케이션에 확인하는 그런 것들이 그래도 방법 중에 하나가 아닐까 생각을 하고….]

Investigations should take some time, as the reports were received simultaneously by more than 20 police stations across the country and there are many reports used for the crime.

Experts urged users not to make a deposit as much as possible and to trade through the trading site system used rather than Kakao Talk or text messages to avoid damage from used trading scams.

I’m Dongjun Ahn from YTN.

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