When I tried ‘chat part-time job’… In the end, “Take off” “Deposit”[르포]

Screen capture of Instagram and Titi Talk website

‘Win · Win · Transfer · Deposit’

He lured them in by saying, “Even if you chat, you can make money,” but the conclusion was always a request to “send money.” As a result of CBS No Cut News accessing the site for several days and confirming, the entire process of ‘chat part-time job’ was actually just a ‘build-up’ to attract deposits. I mean, it’s a complete scam.

The starting point is an Instagram introduction

This time, the reporters went directly to the Instagram account that had approached the victims. As if to pretend to be a personal account, he posted a picture of a happy family, but it is presumed to have been stolen. The name ‘female job’ and the address of the Kakao Talk open chat room were written on the profile.

Upon entering the open chat room, the host asked for age and gender. She revealed that she was a 24-year-old woman, and as soon as she did, her personal KakaoTalk account was presented. This KakaoTalk account, namely Mr. A, introduced himself as a partner of a famous part-time job brokerage site in a 1:1 conversation, and then gave an explanation about ‘chat part-time job’.

Mr. A guaranteed a profit of 2 to 3 million won per month, saying, “It is possible with two jobs and a phone.” They also tried to reassure visitors that all chats are conducted anonymously. “You can talk to the other person comfortably as you feel comfortable.” “Even if you drop a chat, you get coins.” Coins are a kind of cyber money used on this site.

When I went to the link I was directed to, an Internet website appeared. The name is ‘Titi Tok.’ It looked exactly like ‘Secret Talk’, which the majority of victims suffered. It was virtually identical to the screen composition and font style decorated like a smartphone app. Only the background color changed from black to orange. I even managed to sign up as a member using the referral code I received from KakaoTalk.

Around that time, a notice came from Mr. A. “Our business hours are 10am to 5pm. Weekends are off.” This shows the possibility that each chat room is organized by a company rather than by an individual. Usually, most other chat apps or sites run 24 hours a day without a break.

As soon as I entered, “Is it possible to be exposed?”

Three days later, I logged on again on a weekday. I was able to confirm the interface inside the site, which is quite crude and crude. There are so many chat rooms, the list goes on endlessly, and the titles of the rooms range from general ones like ‘I’m Hungry’, ‘Exhibition’, and ‘On Business Trip’, to things that are so sensational that I can’t bear to say them.

I went into one of them and pretended to be popular. The other side came out blatantly from the beginning. “Do you like 19 gold?” “I’ll give you many presents.” Here, the reporters asked back, “Can’t we just have a conversation?”, and then tried to have a normal conversation, such as “Have you eaten?” Then, not long after, he was kicked out of the room.

The situation developed similarly in the second room entered. However, the person I met here was similar to the chat person I met just before. All in all, “19 gold possible?” While exclaiming “exposure room available?”, the vocabulary as well as the habit of leaving a space in front of the question mark showed the same appearance. It appears to be traces of the same person accessing with multiple IDs.

The reporters said that they wanted to continue their part-time job with only talking companions without exposure, but the other party did not let it go. They sent 500,000 coins and 1.2 million coins one after another, asking them to take a picture and send it. In that way, I was able to accumulate up to 1.78 million coins at once. However, when the photo request was rejected, the chat window was quickly filled with profanity.

After a while, a notice popped up saying ‘No entry’. It seems that he was ‘forced out’ because he did not need to hold on to the chat any longer as he confirmed several times that he had no intention of sending exposure photos. Even when I went into another room, only a notice saying ‘It’s over’ came out. After repeating this process several times, the ID itself was blocked.

There are various paths, but the end is ‘deposit’

Reporter Seonggi Kim
The only way to solve the sudden blocking was ‘deposit’. Both Mr. A, who first introduced Titi Talk on Kakao Talk, and the customer center on the site said, “To get coins back in cash, you need to ‘level up’.” To do this, they said that they had to transfer 800,000 won to a specific account number they presented. In the end, he argued that it was not a losing business because coins would be paid again as much as the money deposited when he went up.

This is what the reporters directly confirmed. On the other hand, many of the victims say they actually sent money to get a job. There have been quite a few cases in which a large sum of money was taken away by depositing money several times after being tricked by various excuses. During this process, “I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to get my part-time job back, so I quickly deposited money” is a common story among victims, including former AOA member Minah Kwon. Moreover, some took and sent exposed photos during the chatting process, which again became an excuse for blackmail.

As a result of the coverage, there were various routes, but the end was always a request to send money, and there was no case of exchanging cyber money ‘coins’ earned online for cash.