'Voice phishing collection plan' Woman in her 20s found not guilty..Why?

A woman in her 20s who was accused of receiving cash from voice phishing victims and delivering it to a criminal organization was found not guilty.

According to the legal community on the 20th, the Gwangju District Court found Ms. A, a woman in her 20s, not guilty who was put on trial on fraud charges on the 23rd of last month.

Mr. A is accused of receiving approximately 180 million won from five voice phishing victims in 2023 and passing it on to related gang members.

The prosecution determined that Mr. A conspired with a voice phishing organization and served as a collection agent.

However, Mr. A denied the charges, saying that a member of a voice phishing organization approached him by impersonating an official from a trust company after seeing his resume posted on a job search site.

They also claimed that it was difficult to suspect that the trust company was a crime because it was easily searched on the Internet.

In addition, Mr. A emphasized that he felt suspicious while carrying out cash delivery duties, so he immediately went to the investigative agency and surrendered himself.

The court stated the reason for sentencing, saying, "The transaction method, such as receiving a significant amount of money without any communication, is difficult to see as a normal form, so there is suspicion that the defendant acted as a collection method while knowing that it was a crime." However, "The amount the defendant received was approximately 2 million won, which cannot be considered an excessively large amount of money, and when a crime was suspected, he refused instructions from a voice phishing organization. If he had even vaguely known that he was participating in a fraud, he would not have turned himself in."

Attorney Kwak Min-seop of Daeryun Law Firm, who represented Mr. A, said, "Mr. A gave his real name in the process of receiving the money from the victims, and used a card in his name to pay for transportation and food expenses. Since there was no intention to commit fraud, he did not do anything to conceal his identity, and the court appears to have acknowledged this and ruled him not guilty."

Jeong Eui-jin (jej88@ikbc.co.kr)

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