Seocho criminal lawyer: If you are involved in voice phishing, "you need sufficient assistance from legal experts from the investigation stage."

As criminal organizations for telephone financial fraud (voice phishing) become more fragmented and various damage cases continue to occur, caution is required not to be deceived by them.

Voice phishing not only causes enormous property damage to an unspecified number of people, but also uses 'action plans', which are responsible for collecting, withdrawing, remitting, and delivering damages essential for the actual crime, as a tool of crime, and completely unrelated people are reduced to voice phishing participants in an instant, so special caution is required.

According to the legal community, a defendant who was recently charged with a voice phishing scheme was acquitted. In the meantime, it has been common practice for voice phishing to be punished for 'behavioral actions' as they clearly fall under crimes such as 'aiding and abetting fraud', 'fraud', and 'violation of the Electronic Financial Transactions Act', so this acquittal is attracting attention.

The defendant joined the company after seeing a job advertisement on an online recruitment site. Afterwards, I was in charge of loan collection and spent three days collecting loans from customers and depositing them into the company's account. However, these customers were victims of voice phishing fraud, and the client was arrested following the victim's report. In reality, the company was a shell company created by a voice phishing group.

Seocho criminal lawyer Shim Jae-guk, who represented the defendant, said, "Through an interview with my client, who was incarcerated in a detention center at the time, I was able to confirm the facts and find several circumstances that did not allow me to say that I was aware of the crimes committed by the voice phishing gang. My client claimed innocence based on the fact that there were several circumstances showing that he had no intention to commit fraud. The court accepted this and was declared not guilty."

Attorney Shim said, "If you are involved in a charge of participating in voice phishing, you should give up the idea that this acquittal will apply to your case as well," and added, "There are many variables depending on the case, such as the period of the crime, the number of times, the content, and the scale of the damage. In addition, there are cases where people are involved unfairly, while there are also cases where people participate in the crime for financial gain even though they are aware of the crime. If they had even the slightest knowledge of the crime, it is judged that there was criminal intent, so it is not easy to avoid a prison sentence even for first-time offenders, so sufficient legal action is required from the investigative stage. “You will need expert help,” he advised.

Daeryun Criminal Law Firm, which provided help, operates a dedicated criminal team with expertise in various criminal cases, including economic crimes, violent crimes, sex crimes, and traffic crimes. Currently, we have offices in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon, Ulsan, Suwon, Changwon, Cheongju, Jeonju, Uijeongbu, Chuncheon, Jinju, and Jeju.

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