Prevention of phishing education for people with visual and hearing impairments...for the first time in the country

[Anchor]
Prevention is more important than anything else for phishing crimes, but the reality is that the visually and hearing-impaired people are exposed because they do not have proper education.

Chungbuk Police is preventing crimes by creating customized educational materials for them for the first time in the country.

This is reporter Kim Ki-soo.

[Reporter]
In January, A, who has a hearing impairment, received a message from a man.

He has expressed his favor by saying that he lives in Mexico, and A has built a friendship through SNS.

Later, the man asked for a loan of money, saying he had lost his passport and credit card in a taxi, and A believed in his friendship and deposited 3 million won, but lost contact.

It is a romance scam, one of the phishing crimes, but people with visual and hearing impairments who have not received proper preventive education are exposed to crime.

Under these circumstances, the Chungbuk police created the nation's first phishing crime prevention education video material for the deaf.

In the educational video, a professional sign language interpreter appeared to introduce damage cases and explain prevention methods at the level of the deaf.

[Yang Heung-mo / Deaf : There was a limit to the information due to lack of audiovisual data on how to prevent voice phishing. So I often asked a friend of a farmer around me or got help from a sign language interpretation center.]

In addition, we also created a promotional material for braille, which is familiar to non-disabled people, but it has not been known until now because blind people are difficult to access.

[Lee Sang-heon / Chungbuk National Police Agency's violent crime chief: Prevention is important for voice phishing crimes. This year, we visited various institutions and learned that there was no preventive data for the disabled during the prevention education process..]

The police expect that educated disabled people will also be able to resolve educational blind spots by delivering content to other disabled people around them.

Chungbuk Police plans to carry out crime prevention activities by distributing educational materials to disabled organizations nationwide.

I'm Kim Ki-soo of YTN.