Warning Screen 'Beware of Voice Phishing Crime Involvement' Appears on Bank ATMs

Supreme Prosecutors' Office and Bank Federation Jointly Develop Measures to Stop Voice Phishing Crimes

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Sun-mi] The Supreme Prosecutors' Office and the Korea Federation of Banks have devised improvement measures to halt voice phishing crimes. This is to prevent the continuous occurrence of crimes that lure job seekers with bait such as high-paying part-time jobs and involve them as low-level members of organized groups, such as cash collectors.

On the 4th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and the Korea Federation of Banks prepared improvement measures to stop voice phishing crimes and plan to induce perpetrators, such as cash collectors, to decide to cease their crimes through preventive warnings. When conducting cashless deposit transactions via bank automated machines, a 'Voice Phishing Crime Participation Warning' message will be displayed to perpetrators like cash collectors, and viewing the message will be a prerequisite for proceeding to the next transaction step.

They will also strengthen the rebuttal of false excuses and proof of intent for deliberate participants in voice phishing. During investigations and trials of related cases, the fact that the 'Voice Phishing Crime Participation Warning' message was viewed will be actively used as impeachment material against false excuses by perpetrators such as cash collectors, as evidence of intent, and as sentencing material to strictly punish offenders.

Currently, voice phishing organizations lure and recruit ordinary job seekers through false job advertisements using bait such as 'loan recovery' and 'high-paying part-time jobs,' and exploit and consume them as means of crime, such as cash collectors. As a result, a large number of unspecified citizens are facing serious situations where they are at risk of financial damage from voice phishing as well as criminal punishment.

Officials from the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and the Korea Federation of Banks stated, "The improvement plan is expected to be implemented promptly with the active participation of all member banks of the Korea Federation of Banks, significantly contributing to the eradication of voice phishing and reduction of damages" and "The Supreme Prosecutors' Office will continue to do its best to eradicate voice phishing crimes by actively cooperating with related organizations such as the Korea Federation of Banks through the voice phishing response task force."

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