It is difficult to avoid criminal punishment if you are involved in a voice phishing incident.

[Beyond Post Reporter Kim Min-hyuk] Voice phishing is a representative fraud crime that uses phone calls, text messages, and other various means to steal the other person's personal information or money. It is one of the representative problems that harm the people's economy along with illegal private financing, cyber gambling, and speculative games.

Especially in recent years, as the household economy has suffered due to the long-term economic downturn, there have been many cases where people who have no way to make a living or who are in dire need of money are being unfairly turned into criminals by exploiting their weaknesses and forcing them to participate in phishing crimes.

In order to prevent such damage from voice phishing, financial authorities are strengthening document verification procedures to eradicate cannon bank accounts and double-checking the purpose of transactions when actually transacting, but criminal organizations are also evolving in sophisticated ways.

Voice phishing criminal organizations based overseas use a variety of criminal methods, and in the case of Korea, they often use tail cutting methods, such as writing a message on a job search site or community offering to pay a large amount of daily wages, then telling contacts that they will pay if they will briefly lend them their bank account, or instructing them to withdraw cash from the account they tell them about.

As crimes are committed in this way, it is inevitable that there will be many cases where the person delivering the crime or collecting it, rather than the leader or executive of the organization, is arrested for doing as he or she is told without knowing the details.

Even if they were not fully aware of the fact that they were illegally withdrawing phishing damages in cash, if there were circumstances that made them suspicious, it would count as intentional negligence, so even if it is a first offense, heavy punishment can be imposed.

Attorney Shin Dong-hoon of Daeryun Law Firm (Yuhan) advised, "As criminal methods are becoming more sophisticated day by day, the general public needs to be more careful. If you are involved in voice phishing, such as falling into the trap of a voice phishing organization and participating in a crime, you must take active measures to resolve the problem and reduce the sentence through a voice phishing lawyer with specialized legal knowledge."

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