20s Faking Accidents Then Grabbing Neck to Get Down... It Was a High-Paying Part-Time Job

Meeting through SNS... Mostly in their 20s

A group of 45 people who committed a so-called 'insurance scam' crime by deliberately targeting only illegally changing lanes and crashing into them to claim insurance money were caught by the police. This classic crime method has recently been rapidly increasing among people in their 20s through job postings called 'high-paying part-time jobs.'

On the 16th, the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency announced that six people including Mr. A and 45 people including Mr. B were sent to the prosecution without detention on charges of violating the Special Act on Insurance Fraud Prevention. Most of the suspects are in their 20s.

Mr. A and five others, who are acquaintances, deliberately collided with vehicles that changed lanes or made left turns from straight lanes at major intersections in Busan 95 times from 2018 to May of this year. They are suspected of collecting a total of 700 million won in insurance money through this method.

Mr. A and his group pretended as if the accidents happened by chance and demanded settlement money, medical expenses, and motorcycle repair costs from the other party, citing traffic violations. They squandered the insurance money on luxury goods and online gambling funds, and when the money ran out, they committed the crimes again.

The remaining suspects including Mr. B are accused of deliberately crashing into traffic law-violating vehicles 27 times over three months from January this year in Busan, Seoul, Incheon, and other areas, receiving 300 million won in insurance money.

They recruited people to commit crimes together through advertisement posts. They picked up those who responded to the 'high-paying part-time job' ads posted online and caused intentional accidents in passenger cars. According to police investigations, when they received insurance money including settlement money, they paid 1 to 1.2 million won to the driver and 300,000 to 500,000 won to the passengers.

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Meanwhile, domestic insurance fraud is rapidly increasing due to relative deprivation caused by the widening wealth gap after COVID-19, prolonged economic recession, and the use of digital platforms.

Accordingly, insurance companies' SIU (Special Investigation Unit for Insurance Crimes) is focusing on identifying 'intentional car accidents' and others. They select subjects for investigation, check individual accident details one by one, and analyze connections. By understanding each role and conspiracy relationship, they finally specify the scale of the organization.

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