Middle School Boy Who Fell to Death from Incheon Apartment Suspected of Being Victim of Bodycam Phishing... Police Investigation Underway

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Soyoung] The circumstances have emerged that a middle school student who died after falling from the rooftop of an apartment in Incheon was a victim of "body cam phishing," prompting the police to launch an investigation.

According to the Gyeyang Police Station in Incheon on the 31st, at around 5:40 p.m. on the 27th of last month, a middle school student A (13) fell from the rooftop of a 19-story apartment building in Gyeyang-gu, Incheon.

An apartment security guard found A lying dead with blood on the flower bed and reported it to the police. Police investigation confirmed that A had climbed up to the apartment rooftop by himself at the time of the accident. The National Forensic Service was requested to perform an autopsy on A's body, and the initial verbal opinion was that "death appears to have been caused by the fall."

The police confirmed from A's mobile phone that he had been threatened with body cam phishing before his death and are conducting an investigation.

Body cam phishing is an act of extorting money by threatening to distribute videos of the victim's body parts, filmed during video calls or similar, to acquaintances or others.

The police are conducting digital forensic work on A's mobile phone and other devices to ascertain the exact circumstances.

A police official said, "There are signs that A was threatened before his death, so we are investigating," adding, "The specific details of the threats cannot be disclosed yet as the digital forensic work is ongoing."

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