[Mokpo Legal Consultation Assistance Example] A Client Acting as a Voice Phishing Cash Courier Who Received a Mokpo Legal Consultation Obtains an Acquittal

At the Mokpo legal consultation, the client explained in detail how he had come to be involved in the offense.

The client had taken a job through a job-search site at a company engaged in real estate-related business.

The company told him that he simply needed to survey and report on the status of real estate near his residence, and assigned him the task of taking and sending photographs of buildings.

Then, saying that the company's circumstances required it to receive money related to its business, he received a work instruction to collect money from someone and deposit it at a bank.

The client says that, without any suspicion, he received the money on two occasions and went to the bank to deposit it.

Some time later, he was contacted by the police, and only after being questioned did he learn that he had been acting as a voice phishing cash courier.

However, the client, who had received neither any fee nor even his salary, felt at a loss in this situation, and he requested a Mokpo legal consultation to seek assistance.

Penalty Levels for a Voice Phishing Cash Courier

Voice phishing organizations draw in people who are experiencing financial hardship or who are desperate for employment and use them as couriers or collectors.

In this process, most people claim that they "did not know it was a voice phishing offense."

However, if a person repeated suspicious delivery acts several times for personal gain, or if the work instructions were such that anyone would have to suspect a crime, willful negligence may be found, and the person may be punished depending on the circumstances.

A voice phishing cash courier may be charged with 🔗aiding and abetting fraud or a violation of the Electronic Financial Transactions Act.

If the charge of aiding and abetting fraud is found, the penalty is generally, depending on the size of the gain, imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than 10 million won.

For a violation of the Electronic Financial Transactions Act, the penalty is imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of not more than 30 million won.

The attorneys emphasized that the client had simply followed the criminal act in this case passively, believing it to be an ordinary company work instruction.

They also established the circumstances showing that the client had not recognized that he was taking part in a voice phishing offense and acting as a cash courier, and argued that he had no intent whatsoever.

The attorneys argued that the client had no criminal record and was a person who had lived diligently.

The client felt sorry toward the victims who had suffered financial harm as a result of his conduct.

The attorneys also argued that, despite the client's difficult family circumstances, he was making every effort to provide restitution within his financial means.

The case above was one in which a client who believed he was following an ordinary company work instruction, but had in fact acted as a voice phishing cash courier, obtained a not-guilty verdict through a Mokpo legal consultation.

If you believed you had simply obtained a job but came to be charged as a voice phishing cash courier, you must be able to establish your innocence with concrete evidence in order to obtain a not-guilty verdict in a voice phishing case.

However, the statements or assertions of the person alone are not sufficient.

It is therefore advisable to collect objective evidence and circumstances with the help of an experienced attorney from the early stages of the case.

If you are facing difficulties such as those above, you may request a Mokpo legal consultation from Daeryun Law Firm at any time.