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Violation of the Special Act on Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud
Violation of the Special Act on Telecommunications-based Financial FraudSuspension of Indictment

Seocho Criminal Attorney | Client Suspected of Telecommunications-Based Financial Fraud, Suspension of Indictment

The attorney represented a client who sought an attorney with extensive case experience in Seocho-gu to defend against punishment on suspicion of telecommunications-based financial fraud. The client received a suspension of indictment.

1. The Client Who Sought a Seocho Criminal Attorney

The client was suspected of violating the Special Act on Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud.

The client explained that, to defend against punishment, they sought a criminal attorney with extensive experience handling criminal cases in Seocho-gu.

The attorney set out to understand the case in order to defend against the client's punishment, and the details were as follows.

The client decided to take a part-time job to cover university tuition.

The client found a job posting for an office part-time position with high pay and applied.

A reply came from the person who had posted it, who explained that the company was a place that converted the loans of customers using high-interest loans into low-interest ones.

After negotiating pay, the client began the part-time work. The supervisor would tell the client a certain location, and the client would go there, confirm the customer who had been identified in advance, receive cash, and deliver it to a company employee.

As it turned out, this company was a telecommunications-based financial fraud, that is, a voice phishing organization, and when the organization's crimes were uncovered, it came to light that the client had acted as a cash collector, leading to this case.

Accordingly, the client was at risk of criminal punishment on suspicion of violating the Special Act on Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud.

2. Telecommunications-Based Financial Fraud, as Explained by the Seocho Criminal Attorney

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The client was at risk of criminal punishment on suspicion of violating the Special Act on Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud.

Telecommunications-based financial fraud is one type of financial 🔗crime of fraud committed using communications media such as mobile devices and PCs.

🔗Voice phishing, messenger phishing, and smishing fall under the types of telecommunications-based financial fraud.

Level of Punishment for Telecommunications-Based Financial Fraud, as Explained by the Seocho Criminal Attorney

Article 15-2 of the Special Act on Telecommunications-based Financial Fraud (Penal Provisions)
① A person who commits telecommunications-based financial fraud may be punished by imprisonment for a definite term of at least one year or by a fine equivalent to not less than three times and not more than five times the criminal proceeds, or by both.

Under the statute that was violated, the client could be subject to a level of punishment such as the above.

3. The Seocho Criminal Attorney's Defense of the Client

As the client requested, the attorney conducted the defense against criminal punishment as follows.


The client did not recognize that the money received from the victims was the proceeds of a voice phishing crime.

The client merely performed tasks at the direction of the organization's members and did not know that the work being performed was a voice phishing crime.

The client raised settlement funds for the victims who suffered loss from the client's conduct, and reached a settlement with some of the victims.

The client applied for this part-time job posting for a living and became involved in the voice phishing crime.

Apart from the promised daily wage, the client did not spend or acquire any proceeds of the voice phishing crime.

4. The Result Led by the Seocho Criminal Attorney

As a result of the attorney's defense against the client's criminal punishment, the prosecution issued a suspension of indictment in the case.

The prosecution explained that, in deciding on the suspension of indictment, it took into account that the client committed the offense in the course of a part-time job to cover tuition, that the client acknowledged the offense and showed remorse, and that the client repaid a substantial portion of the loss and reached a settlement with the victims.

Drawing on experience handling cases related to telecommunications-based financial fraud, the attorney identified and argued the points amounting to mitigating factors, which made it possible to obtain the result of a suspension of indictment.

After receiving the disposition, the client will be able to avoid indictment itself if the client commits no offense whatsoever for two years.

If you are unfairly suspected of voice phishing like the client in this case, please receive a 🔗recommendation for an attorney and respond to your case.

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