A collection book, charged with stealing 30 million won from a victim of telephone financial fraud, was urgently arrested by the police after a taxi driver reported 112.
The taxi driver, who felt suspicious of the passenger’s behavior and money envelope, stopped a taxi on the shoulder and reported to the police that he was suspected of financial fraud.
The man claimed that he was “just running an errand after being asked”, but the police saw the man as a collection agent for a phone financial fraud organization and charged him.
The man took a taxi this morning after receiving 31.3 million won in cash from the victim in Seo-gu, Incheon.
After the man was caught, the victim belatedly reported to the police, saying, “I think I may have suffered from a phone financial fraud.”
Seoul Dongjak Police Station is planning to confiscate the cash held by the man and return it to the victim, while expanding the investigation to higher levels of the organization.
Previously, on the afternoon of the 17th, a taxi driver who was running with a collection book that hijacked 40 million won by phone financial fraud received a call from the police and drove a taxi to the Nakseongdae District in Seoul to help the police in the arrest operation.