Actress Han Ji-hye confesses to experiencing voice phishing.
The SBS program Tails of Tales airing on the 19th (directed by Ahn Yoon-tae, Lee Keun-byul, Kim Byung-gil; hereafter Kkokkomu) follows the "faceless killer" case, tracing voice phishing damage tied to an 11-hour phone call that drove a 28-year-old man to death. Actress Han Ji-hye, actress Shin So-yul and singer AtHeart Arin, who appeared as listeners, are filled with anger.
Han Ji-hye confessed, "I almost became a victim of voice phishing," drawing attention. She said, "I once received a call saying my name was used in a crime, and the moment I reacted, 'My name?' I ended up getting fooled," revealing how she nearly fell for the phishers' convincing talk. She said, "Fortunately there was no damage," and added, "In the moment I couldn't tell it was voice phishing," emphasizing the need for vigilance against increasingly sophisticated voice phishing crimes.
This week's Kkokkomu episode draws attention by covering the real voice phishing crime in 2020 in which a victim committed suicide by jumping. The 28-year-old man, who received a call beginning, "This is Prosecutor Kim Min-su of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office," suffered an 11-hour, meticulously executed voice phishing scheme that led to his jumping from an apartment. The young man, who received a call from someone impersonating a prosecutor saying his bank account had been used in a crime, fought to prove he was not the criminal but ended up suffering a loss of 4.2 million won. What is even more tragic is that he jumped to his death believing he had become the criminal without realizing he was a voice phishing victim.
Shin So-yul, making her fifth appearance on Kkokkomu, erupted in anger over the phishers' heinous methods, saying, "I'm so angry my body is shaking," and AtHeart Arin choked up, saying, "This is murder." Shin So-yul sobbed after reading the suicide note the voice phishing victim left before jumping.
Meanwhile, the studio was stunned by real-time AI voice technology. After recording the voices of the Kkokkomu hosts and inputting the script, an AI voice identical to the real voice played. Shin So-yul listened to her AI voice and was reportedly shocked, saying, "It sounds exactly like my voice. It's terrifying."
The identity of the voice phishing perpetrators, which caused shock, horror and unprecedented anger, and the highly sophisticated voice phishing methods are revealed on Kkokkomu.
Kkokkomu is a program in which three storytellers study on their own and convey what they have learned to each of their "story friends" one-on-one in the most ordinary spaces, and it airs on SBS every Thursday at 10:20 p.m.
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