”It seems like a lie, but I was fooled”...Romance scams and wire transfer scams that even stars have been affected by...

Stars drew attention by confessing to being victims of scams.

On the 9th, actor and TV personality Hong Seok-jyun revealed on his YouTube channel "Hong Seok-jyun's Jewel Box" that he had suffered from a bank transfer scam in the past.

On the same day, when his guest actor Gong Myung introduced the upcoming movie "Citizen Dok Hee" as a movie related to bank transfer scams, Hong Suk-joon said indignantly, "I was robbed of 5.8 million won five years ago."

Hong Suk-joon has mentioned this incident in a past program. While filming overseas, he was contacted by a close acquaintance who "demanded a specific amount of 5.8 million won," he said, adding, "I didn't hear from him even a month later. He later asked, 'Why don't you return the money I lent you?' He said that he had no idea what I was talking about."

Singer Kim Sang-hyuk (Click-B) once revealed that he was a victim of a "romance fraud" crime. On the 8th, Kim Sang-hyuk appeared on YouTube's "Namdari Mac" and said, "One day, someone sent me periodic messages. It was a time when I was mentally weak, but I spent my spare time exchanging messages with foreigners like pen pals," he recalled.

He continued, "He wanted to celebrate my birthday and asked if I would do bitcoin. He said, 'If I put your US dollars, the dividends would come,'" and he added, "I put in one million won and the dividends went down every six hours. So I put in more." and confided that he had been scammed out of 20 million won. Kim Sang-hyuk said, "I didn't call them, nor did I love them. I just wanted them to say warm words to me," he said bitterly.

On the other hand, model Lee Hyun-hee revealed a wild scam story she had experienced in the past when she ran a restaurant. Lee Hyun-hee said, "Someone came to me and told me that if I bought a bottle of wine, they would pay double the cost of the wine and drink it themselves. I said I would buy it for him, but because he was a model at the time, the boss greeted the customer when he came and sent his youngest employee to buy it with the boss's card," she recalled.

She continued, "I told him he had to make a cash withdrawal and pay in cash. All of this, while I told the story, seemed like a lie, but I was deceived. I gave the employee my PIN number, saying what it was. Then that person invited the employee to take the card from the employee and withdraw cash from the employee and run away," he told me, and I took pity on him.