Police step up crackdown on voice phishing ahead of holidays
Social affairsJan 30, 2015
For the forthcoming Lunar New Year holiday next month, the police plan to bolster their crackdown on voice phishing amid rising worries over damages from scamming. A special task force team is being launched in a bid to deal with fraud phone calls and new tricks from scammers, a police official said.The state-run financial regulator also warned that voice phishing scammers actively make fraud calls pretending to be parcel delivery services, since many Koreans send gifts for the occasion. “Be sus