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A voice phishing collector impersonating a banker hijacked 40 million won and fled in a taxi, but the taxi stopped and dropped the man off.
It was none other than in front of the police station.
The police and taxi drivers who received the voice phishing report caught the criminal as if they were conducting an espionage operation.
Reporter Son Ha-neul will tell you what happened.
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In front of the Nakseongdae District in Seoul, a taxi comes in and stops.
Moments later, the police arrive in a taxi and open the back door, a man disembarks and the police confiscate the bag.
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“The Hwaseong Western Police Station made an urgent request for the vehicle. The person in the back seat was the voice phishing collector, so they asked me to check and arrest him…”
Three hours ago, this man in his 50s took a taxi from Yongsan Station in Seoul to Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do.
I asked the taxi driver, “I will go back to Seoul after meeting a person and receiving the documents, so please wait for 10 minutes.”
“I haven’t met you yet.”
This man returned after an hour had passed.
In fact, it was a collection book for a voice phishing scam organization that pretended to be a bank, and met a scam victim on Mars and was handed 44.5 million won in cash.
The victim in his 50s, who realized it was a scam 30 minutes later, immediately reported it to the police and gave the taxi license plate number he had remembered.
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“(Private taxi) I urgently got the contact information of the borrower. I was talking to the car owner and he said ‘Stop at the nearest police box’…”
Even after talking to the police, the taxi driver calmly continued driving.
The taxi driver exited the highway interchange and drove straight to the visible police district.
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“(After receiving the police officer’s phone call) I was shocked. How should I do this? As I thought about it, I thought of the Nakseongdae District in the direction from Seoul National University to Sadang-dong.”
The man caught after a joint operation between the police and taxi driver is known to have stated that he “only worked part-time, carrying documents.”
Police returned the confiscated cash to the victim and are pursuing other voice phishing gang members.
This is Son Ha-neul from MBC News.
Video coverage: Kang Jong-su / Video editing: Ahn Jun-hyeok / Video provided by: Seoul Gwanak Police Station
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