A defendant shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two months.

Punishment of the crime

On December 13, 2019, the Defendant was sentenced to eight months of imprisonment for fraud, etc. at the Incheon District Court, and the above sentence was finalized on December 21, 2019.

The Defendant, at around January 15, 2019, posted a letter stating “sale of game money” on the Internet bulletin board although he/she did not have an intent or ability to sell the game money, and reported the fact to the effect that “The Defendant would sell the game money in KRW 3.80,000,000” to the victim C who contacted with the Defendant, and received a remittance of KRW 3.88,000 from the victim to the virtual account (E) at around 17:38 of the same day.

On March 21, 2019, the Defendant reported that “The victim H is pop-up in KRW 856,800,” posted at the GPC room located in the Nam-gu Incheon Metropolitan City, Seoul, on the Internet SNS Purpose, the Defendant sent a false statement to the victim that “First, the Defendant would pay the price of the item on the face of the unit.”

However, even if the defendant is a item, he did not have the intention or ability to pay the price to the victim.

As such, the Defendant, by deceiving the victim, obtained items from the victim, as K character of online gameJ, equivalent to KRW 856,80,00, and acquired pecuniary benefits equivalent to the same amount.

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1. On May 26, 2019, the Defendant, at around 13:00 on May 26, 2019, posted a letter stating that “B” on the trading bulletin board of the Internet site (M) “B,” “B,” and said, the Defendant, at the Gangnam-gu Incheon Metropolitan City website, said that “W, sells the J Game money at KRW 5 billion,” and that the Defendant would transfer cash of KRW 195,500,000,000, per week to the victim who contacted the Defendant.”

However, the fact is that the game money that the defendant intends to sell has been illegally acquired by using an error program, and the game money acquired by this method from the side of the game company is fraudulent.