Kim Young-joo "Only 25% of 16,903 victims of name theft by the three major telecom companies compensated"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Hye-seon] It has been revealed that only 25% of victims who experienced identity theft from the three major mobile carriers?SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus?over the past five years actually received compensation.

Kim Young-joo, a member of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting Committee (Democratic Party), analyzed data titled "Number of Mobile Phone Identity Theft Cases and Damage Amounts from the Three Major Mobile Carriers in the Past Five Years," received from the Ministry of Science and ICT on the 22nd. According to the analysis, there were 16,903 reported cases of mobile phone identity theft across the three carriers in the past five years, of which only 4,260 cases (25%) were recognized as damages and compensated. The highest number of identity theft reports was from SKT, accounting for half of the total (8,650 cases). This was followed by LG Uplus with 4,493 cases and KT with 3,760 cases.

The total damage amount reported for the 16,903 cases across the three carriers was 5.43 billion KRW. Among these, for the 4,260 cases recognized as identity theft and compensated, the three carriers paid an average of 885,000 KRW to a maximum of 2,045,000 KRW per case.

Assemblyman Kim Young-joo stated, "Mobile phone identity theft has long been used as a means for sales agencies to boost their performance and for sellers to gain unfair profits, and recently, vulnerable groups have been increasingly victimized." He added, "To prevent such damages, I urge the three mobile carriers to actively impose sanctions on agencies and provide consumers with preventive education in advance."

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