'Pretending to Be a "Single Wealthy Man"... Married Man Defrauded Girlfriend's Family of Hundreds of Millions'

Convicted of Embezzling Investment Funds from Mother, Aunt, and Sibling
Unemployed with Four Children... Sentenced to 2 Years and 6 Months in Prison

A married man in his 40s who pretended to be an unmarried wealthy man, promised marriage to a woman he was dating, and deceived her family to embezzle hundreds of millions of won was sentenced to prison.

On the 6th, Kwon Soon-nam, a judge of the Criminal Division 3 at Incheon District Court, announced that A (45), who was indicted on charges including fraud, was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison.

A was on trial for embezzling 120 million won from B, a woman he was dating from April to July 2020, and her family. A, a married man with four children, pretended to be an unmarried wealthy man to B, whom he met through a matchmaking application.

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After promising marriage to B, A began demanding money for various reasons. Not only B’s mother and younger brother but also her aunt were deceived by his lies and handed money over to A.

This was not A’s first offense. In 2019, A also pretended to be a company CEO by showing a Mercedes-Benz passenger car to a woman he met for the first time and persuaded her to invest in real estate auctions, embezzling 55 million won. Another victim who happened to meet A at a travel gathering suffered a similar scam and lost 20 million won.

Investigations revealed that A had been unemployed without a special occupation since 2015 and had almost no assets. It was also found that he had a criminal record, having been sentenced to 2 years in prison for fraud in 2016 and 1 year and 6 months in prison in 2021 for retaliatory assault under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes.

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