A woman in her 20s who placed over 1,500 orders with a fresh food delivery service only to fraudulently return them and pocket the refunded money has been sentenced to prison time.
A woman in her 30s tried to purchase running shoes worth 300,000 won ($220) on a secondhand marketplace, only to be scammed and harassed by the scammer as well.
victims are being rejected in their requests to freeze their violated accounts.
Beware of a new scam involving refunds for TMON and WeMakePrice purchases, with scammers posing as Qoo10 employees in order to obtain personal information.
The heads of two criminal organizations that carry out voice phishing scams against Koreans were recently arrested upon their entry into the country, according to the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Wednesday.
Busan police are investigating over 30 unsolicited deliveries a man says he received from AliExpress.
A Swiss man flew to Korea to catch his thought-to-be female romance scammer, who turned out to be a man.
Easy-to-open joint virtual bank accounts have become hotbeds of fraud as swindlers use them to launder stolen money. Scammers misappropriate the system by luring victims into opening accounts and using them to receive and launder extorted money.
A growing number of scammers are using swindled money from phishing victims to wire to unrelated third parties, freezing their bank accounts.
Jeon Cheong-jo, ex-fiancé of Olympic fencer Nam Hyun-hee, was indicted on fraud charges along with an accomplice who pretended to be her bodyguard. The duo is accused of swindling $2.3 million from 27 people.
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