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○ [News Story] "I'll Mutilate Your Child's Body": My Son Crying on the Phone... It Turned Out to Be a Scam (June 6, 2026)

Ha Eun-mi (pseudonym), who was on parental leave, suffered a loss of 55 million won after a side job she started to help with household finances turned out to be a "team mission" part-time job scam. The scammers first paid out small amounts of profit to build trust, then invited Ha to a group chat, claiming she could earn even higher returns. As she later discovered, this group chat was created solely to deceive her, and everyone in it except for her was in on the scheme. Deceived by their words, Ha even took out a loan without her husband's knowledge and sent the money.

As crackdowns on voice phishing have intensified, new types of phishing crimes, such as part-time job scams and no-show order scams, are spreading rapidly. In fact, the total damage from these new types of phishing in the first quarter of this year has been shown to exceed the scale of damage from voice phishing.

Reported by Lee Jong-hoon | Written by Kim Da-yeon | Planned by Jung Hyung-taek | Video PD: Ahn Min-shin | Edited by Son Jong-seok | Produced by SBS Digital News

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