KT Skylife Launches Two Senior Plans to Prevent Phishing Crimes

Two Senior-Exclusive Plans Combined by 'HuHu'

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] KT Skylife announced on the 30th that it will launch two types of the ‘Safe Gold Plan’ for senior customers aged 65 and older on the 1st of next month.

The Safe Gold Plan is a tariff plan that allows users to use mobile services along with ‘WhoWho,’ a specialized service for preventing phone and text financial fraud. The WhoWho service provides voice phishing detection by analyzing voice and words to prevent accidents among the vulnerable senior group in advance, a safe service that connects to a guardian, and smishing detection that analyzes text links. However, WhoWho is provided as an application (app) and, due to operating system (OS) security policies, only Android device users can subscribe.

This Safe Gold Plan comes in two types: ‘Safe Gold 2GB+’ (8,200 KRW) and ‘Safe Gold 4GB+’ (11,700 KRW). It offers unlimited voice and text usage, and even if the provided data is fully used, users can continue to use data unlimitedly at speeds up to 400 Kbps and 1 Mbps respectively, adding ‘phishing safety’ and ‘data safety’ at an affordable price.

Senior customers who subscribe to this plan are automatically enrolled in Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance’s ‘Phishing Hacking Financial Fraud Compensation Insurance.’ If financial damage occurs due to phishing or hacking financial fraud during the insurance period, they can receive compensation up to 3 million KRW for phishing hacking damage (with a deductible of 100,000 KRW per incident) and up to 2 million KRW for cost damages (such as attorney fees, with no deductible).

Additionally, Skylife offers a combined discount of 1,100 KRW when mobile services are bundled with broadcasting (DPS) or broadcasting + internet (TPS).

Jung Hoon, Head of Marketing Services at KT Skylife, said, “We have newly launched a specialized plan to prevent the rapidly increasing voice phishing crimes targeting seniors in advance. We will continue to strive to launch more diverse plans that meet the expectations of senior customers, including single-person households.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.