A woman in her 40s who committed fraud through online secondhand transactions in Inje, Gangwon Province, has been sentenced to prison. The photo above is not related to the article.
[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gyehwa, Intern] A woman in her 40s who committed multiple online secondhand transaction frauds has been sentenced to prison in the first trial. It was revealed that she had previously been fined for assault causing injury, obstruction of business, and fraud.
On the 15th, the Chuncheon District Court Criminal Division 1 (Presiding Judge Jin Wondo) sentenced A (42) to 8 months in prison on charges including fraud.
A is accused of accessing a secondhand transaction platform at her residence in Inje, Gangwon Province, on July 25, 2020, posting a message saying "Selling Louis Vuitton bag," receiving 600,000 KRW for the bag, but not delivering the item, and over a month, defrauding 8 people of a total of 4,320,000 KRW in 8 instances.
Earlier, on June 2 of the same year, A is also accused of extorting 3,590,000 KRW from 3 victims in 3 instances using the same method on an online secondhand trading site.
Additionally, on June 20 of the same year, after seeing a job advertisement posted by B, who runs a pub, A reportedly said, "I will work as an employee, so please give me an advance payment of 3,000,000 KRW. Also, please repay 660,000 KRW I borrowed from my previous workplace."
Subsequently, A received 3,100,000 KRW from B over two weeks but only worked as an employee for 3 days and then stopped showing up.
During the trial, it was revealed that A had previously been fined for assault causing injury in 2009, obstruction of business in 2015, and fraud in 2019.
The court stated the sentencing reasons, saying, "The crime is serious as the defendant repeatedly defrauded multiple victims of payment for goods through the internet," and "Considering that some victims have not fully recovered their damages and that the defendant has not been forgiven."
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