"How about investing in coins?"...Capturing a group of scams to encourage detectives to invest.

A group of people who were engaged in investment fraud, saying investing in bitcoin mining business guarantees high returns, were arrested in large numbers while trying to cheat even detectives.

The Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency arrested 16 people who received 2.3 billion won from 50 victims for seven months from October last year, pretending to be a company that operates a bitcoin mining machine, and handed it over to the prosecution.

They recommended small investments to victims and provided 1% of their investments as proceeds every day, and later used a method of inducing large investments, saying it guaranteed 10 times the existing return, and then taking the investment and disappearing.

He also tried to avoid tracking down investigative agencies by moving offices every two to three months and using new cannon phones, but he was eventually arrested after calling an incumbent detective and trying to cheat.

The police also arrested 31 people accused of providing them with a fake phone USIM opened in foreign names and 33 people accused of illegally collecting and providing personal information while operating a call center and handing it over to the prosecution.