Busan Fraud Attorney Defense | A Client Involved in a Fraud Offense Received a Non-Prosecution Disposition Thanks to a Busan Attorney

Through the consultation, the Busan attorney was able to examine the circumstances of the client's case in detail.

One day, the client received a text message about a loan and submitted an online consultation request.

Following the agent's instructions, the client sent photographs of the front of a bankbook and of an identification card.

After this, the agent reportedly made unreasonable requests, such as demanding copies of other bankbooks.

Growing suspicious, the client pressed the agent, asking whether this was a scam, whereupon the agent reassured the client by even showing the agent's own driver's license.

In the end, the client was taken in and even sent a check card in the client's own name by courier service.

However, not long afterward, the client learned that the client's account had been used as an account for voice phishing proceeds.

As a result, the client was charged with violating the Electronic Financial Transactions Act and requested a fraud-related consultation from a Busan attorney.

The Electronic Financial Transactions Act prohibits the act of transferring or acquiring an access medium.

Accordingly, by transferring the access medium of a financial institution, that is, the client's own check card, to another person, the client committed the offense of violating the Electronic Financial Transactions Act.

In addition to a check card, the access media defined under the Electronic Financial Transactions Act include bankbooks, OTPs, public certificates, bankbook passwords, and the like.

If such access media were lent for monetary consideration or in the knowledge that they would be used in a crime, the person may be punished for 🔗violation of the Electronic Financial Transactions Act.

A person who transfers or lends an access medium, as the client did, may be punished by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine not exceeding 30 million won.

In financially destitute circumstances, the client received a text message offering a low-interest loan, was deceived and taken in, and came to commit the offense in this case.

On this basis, the attorney argued that the client was also a victim who suffered harm of about 2 million won, and that the client transferred the access medium as part of that process.

The client currently bears numerous debts.

However, the attorney argued that the client had merely been deceived and taken in by a fraud organization, and had gained no actual benefit whatsoever from this offense.

The client committed this offense without clearly recognizing whether the client's conduct amounted to a crime.

The attorney argued that, although the client only belatedly learned of this upon receiving contact from the police, the client thereafter showed remorse for the conduct and actively cooperated with the investigation.

The case above was one in which a client, who did not know that the client's conduct was a criminal act in violation of the law, became involved in a fraud offense and, facing the risk of punishment, requested a consultation from a Busan attorney.

The client's matter was a situation in which not only the Electronic Financial Transactions Act but also a charge of aiding and abetting fraud could potentially have been applied.

However, with the help of the Busan attorney, the client received a non-prosecution disposition and was able to conclude the case without incident.

At Daeryun Law Firm, for clients who have unfairly become offenders, attorneys with extensive experience in fraud-related criminal cases provide assistance to the best of their ability, from accompanying clients during police questioning to defending them at trial.

If you have become involved in a fraud offense and are facing the risk of punishment as described above, please book a 🔗legal consultation at any time.