This display seize exhibits an alleged dialog between a member of a fraud ring and sufferer, with the previous asking the sufferer to wire cash beneath the pretense of being caught in the midst of the ocean. (Seoul Metropolitan Police Company)
A world fraud ring is accused of perpetrating a romantic rip-off towards 14 victims, assuming the pretend identities of US troopers, UN officers and international college students, Seoul police stated Tuesday.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Company stated it has forwarded the case of the prison group with a 44-year-old Russian chief to the prosecution for fraud fees. The Russian chief and eight others have been positioned beneath bodily detention.
They’re believed to have swindled a complete of 1.4 billion gained ($1 million) in 68 scams with 14 victims.
The suspects allegedly befriended the victims by way of pretend profiles on numerous social media pages, assuming male identities to feminine victims and feminine identities with male victims. After incomes the victims’ belief and forming romantic relationships, the suspects pretended to be in a jam and requested the victims to wire cash beneath plenty of pretenses.
This included a declare of financial institution accounts being frozen and asking for switch charges to “obtain gold bars they’re getting from UN and Ukraine as compensation.” One of many suspects, who pretended to be a sailor, claimed to be caught in the midst of the ocean and shortly wanted cash.
The sufferer stated she borrowed cash from her sister to wire to the suspect.
In one other case, a member of the prison ring requested a 40-year-old sufferer to wire a charge wanted for packages to cross by customs. The sufferer ended up wiring 165 million gained in whole.
The prison ring reportedly comprised people from international locations together with Nigeria Angola and a naturalized Korean initially from the Philippines.
