On the corner of ‘Detectives‘ Trade Secrets’, ‘Detective 24 Hours’, the Goblin Detectives started the ‘Famous Influencer 500 Million Fraud Case’. Also, on ‘Case Notebook - City of the Blind’, Hong Seo-beom revealed an anecdote about the fraud he suffered with his wife, Jo Gap-kyung, which made viewers feel sad.

On the episode of ‘Detective 24 Hours’ of Channel A’s real-life detective drama ‘Detectives‘ Trade Secrets’ that aired on Monday the 20th, the Goblin Detectives introduced the ‘300,000 Influencer Fraud Case’. The influencer, who had visited the client’s clothing store as a customer, became friendly with him and said, “My older brother started a personal investment management company. He continued to solicit her, saying, “If you invest 30 million won, I will manage it for two weeks and give you 1 million won in interest.” In the end, the client who gave in to the solicitation invested ended up suffering a total loss of 480 million won, including the investment amount and loans.

However, the man who was said to be her older brother was a married man whom she met at a bar and was having an affair with the influencer. He took all of her stock account balance and there was no balance left. A year later, when the trial was in progress, the influencer repaid 26.33 million won by making small payments of 10,000 won and 100,000 won once a month. Kim Poong was furious, saying, “Isn’t this… mocking?”

Also, during the cross-examination, the influencer confidently said, “I will be released on probation,” and after checking the CCTV, assaulted the client and even broke his cell phone. The influencer, who was sentenced to two years in prison, was released around October 2023 and gained followers through adult content. The client, who was watching him, said, “I saw a reply in the comments saying, ‘I earn about 20 to 40 million won a month. ’” He estimated that the influencer would earn a considerable amount of money from group buying and shopping mall profits, as well as from paid subscription services on overseas sites such as exposed content.

However, when the client contacted him on social media saying, ‘Pay me back,’, the influencer blocked the client, saying, ‘I‘m scared, are you going to kill me? It’s unfair, I‘m a victim too,’, and built false evidence for blackmail. The client even went so far as to collect the debt, but compared to the glamorous life uploaded on the influencer’s social media, there was nothing special in his account and house, so the total amount seized was only about 1 million won. The client confessed his difficult situation, saying, “I worked with dozens of employees, but it was no longer possible, so I moved the office and let go of all the employees.” The shocking results of the investigation that the Goblin Detectives will continue to reveal aroused curiosity.

Singer Hong Seo-beom, who won the beautiful singer ‘Jo Gap-kyung♥’, joined the true story reconstruction corner ‘Case Notes - City of the Blind’. In response to his wife‘s comment in the story, “I owe you money”, Hong Seo-beom thought of his wife Jo Gap-kyung and told a sad story about being deceived by a junior and eventually being scammed. Hong Seo-beom said, “I’ve been scammed so many times before too. It‘s just bullshit, anyway”. Defconn made everyone laugh by joking, “Are you a couple who are victims of fraud(?)?“

The client of this story had previously remarried after the death of his ex-wife, and had received advice from a tax accountant to ‘fake divorce’ in order to avoid gift tax and leave all his assets to his current wife who had taken special care of him when he collapsed from stress. However, Hong Seo-beom caused an explosion of laughter with the chilling guess, “Oh... Are you trying to stress me out to death?”.

However, when the wife heard news of the opening of the highway and recommended an investment to her husband, the husband went to a detective agency as a client to find out if it was a scam. The husband, who went on a preliminary investigation with the pen-type camera the detective had asked him to take, was told by the detective that it was a scam. However, the wife had already been fooled by the scammer and had deposited 500 million won without him knowing, and had even used a loan shark out of impatience. Defconn sighed at the shocking situation and said, “I’m really scared. Marriage...”.

In the meantime, the client‘s wife was having an affair with the tax accountant who recommended a ‘sham divorce’. It was revealed that she planned a sham divorce and real estate fraud in order to target the client’s enormous assets. Furthermore, the tax accountant and his wife were originally a married couple and had continued to meet even after their divorce five years ago, and the person who introduced his wife to the client was also a tax accountant, which was shocking. The client, who learned all of his wife‘s secrets, filed a claim for alimony, an adultery lawsuit, and a fraud complaint against the two based on the call records between his wife and the tax accountant. In the end, the tax accountant was stripped of his tax accountant license. Hong Seo-beom was impressed, saying, “I want to know the contact information of the detective in the video. He’s amazing.”.

Photo=Channel A ‘The Detectives‘ Trade Secrets’Reporter Lee Seul-bi, Donga.com misty82@donga.com

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