30s Sentenced to Prison for Receiving and Transferring 94.4 Million Won through Voice Phishing Scam

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Ju Cheol-in] A man in his 30s who received nearly a hundred million won from victims deceived by phone financial scams and delivered it to a voice phishing organization was sentenced to prison.

On the 5th, Judge Kim Jeong-seok of the Ulsan District Court Criminal Division 4 announced that A (30), who was indicted for fraud, was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison.

A was charged with meeting victim B, who was deceived by phone financial scams while pretending to be an employee of the Financial Supervisory Service in Ulsan on September 17 last year, receiving 34 million won, and then depositing it into a designated account, embezzling a total of about 90 million won in two instances.

The organization to which A belonged was investigated to have deceived victims by saying, "Your bank account under your name is involved in a crime, and you are suspected as an accomplice. Please withdraw the remaining money in the account and hand it over to the Financial Supervisory Service employee we sent."

The court stated the sentencing reason, "Phone financial scam crimes are planned and organized against unspecified many people, causing significant economic damage to numerous victims, and the nature of the crime is serious. The defendant’s degree of involvement is by no means light, as he ensured the money reached the hands of the organization members, so a prison sentence was imposed."

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