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A sophisticated voicephishing technique has infiltrated the online trade of used goods.
I sold a gold necklace and received money in my account, but it turned out that the person who sent the money was a victim of voice phishing.
If this happened, the gold necklace would disappear and my account used for the reported voice phishing crime would also be blocked and in reality this type of damage continues.
I must be careful.
Journalist Lee Da-eun broke the story exclusively.
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In front of a restaurant in Buk-gu, Ulsan.
A man in his forties begins to remove the gold necklace around his neck.
I’m trying to sell a $20 gold necklace to a buyer I met through a secondhand trading app.
The buyer who accepted the gold necklace said, “It will be deposited in my wife’s name,” and the seller parted ways after confirming that 7.2 million won had been deposited.
However, when he got home and opened the banking app to send the money elsewhere, his account was already blocked.
[금목걸이 판매자]
″Why doesn’t the transfer work? Even though I was a little puzzled, I immediately received another call from 00 Bank. It’s an account whose payments have been suspended…”
Account transactions have been suspended due to involvement in voice phishing crimes.
I quickly contacted the buyer of the gold necklace, but he had already disappeared.
The money deposited into his account was not sent by the wife of the man who received the gold necklace, but was deposited by another voice phishing victim.
[금목걸이 판매자]
″Of course, since I paid in gold and received the deposit, there would be no problem… “I wasn’t worried at all.”
The so-called third party fraud.
A voice phishing organization gave other victims the account number of the person who sold them the gold necklace and asked them to deposit the money.
As repressive measures have tightened and it has become difficult to find cannon accounts to siphon money, they are using the accounts of those who deal in second-hand goods.
They approach the direct trade of expensive and easy-to-cash used items, such as gold necklaces or gift cards, obtain the seller’s account number in advance and then ask victims of voice phishing to deposit money into this account.
Even if your account is suspended, voice phishing organizations are set up to cash in on gold or gift cards.
The missing buyer of the gold necklace was recently caught by police in Daegu.
It has been confirmed that 25 fraudulent gold necklace transactions were committed across the country under the instructions of a voice phishing organisation.
To avoid harm, second-hand trading companies have asked that, when transacting second-hand goods, they check that the names of the buyer and consignor match and use a secure transaction method that requires identity verification.
This is Lee Da-eun from MBC News.
Video coverage: Jeon Sang-beom (Ulsan)
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