Thousands of fake phones to China...the arrest of a voice phishing organization

[Anchor]
Police have arrested a group of people who smuggled a domestic-opened cannon phone to China and committed a voice phishing crime.

Police believe that thousands of cannon phones have been smuggled into China.

Reporter Yoon Tae-in's report.

[Reporter]
There are paper boxes and several cell phones all over the room.

Police raided a criminal gang's hideout near Incheon International Airport.

From the day they came, they checked that several mobile phones came.

The police arrested 144 people, including a Chinese man in his 50s, on charges of smuggling a fake phone under another person's name to China and committing a voice phishing crime, and handed it over to the prosecution.

They are accused of stealing 5 billion won from 126 people using 55 fake phones for nine months from October last year.

Police have found that over the past seven years, more than 3,400 cannon phones have been siphoned off to China, and most of them are believed to have been used for voice phishing.

If you use a domestic cannon phone, it seems to be aimed at making it easier to deceive victims by displaying it as a domestic number even if you make a phone call from China.

A group of people accused of money laundering their voice phishing profits was also arrested.

For a month from May, the police booked 18 people and handed them over to the prosecution, including arresting one member for laundering about 600 million won in criminal proceeds into virtual currency or using a method of buying luxury goods at duty-free shops.

The police plan to expand their investigation into voice phishing crime organizations by identifying 10 people, including the chief of China's voice phishing, and placing them on Interpol red flags.

I'm YTN Yoon Tae-in.

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