“Promised lifelong care” — woman in her 80s comes to transfer 100 million won; female post office employee calmly dials 112

[Financial News] A story has emerged of a post office employee rescuing an octogenarian who nearly fell victim to a financial scam involving 100 million won after being deceived by an acquaintance’s promise to care for her for life.
The employee at the center of the story is Yun Eun-bi, who works at the financial services counter of the Busan Goejeong-dong Post Office. According to Korea Post on the 3rd, Yun cleverly assessed the situation and stopped an attempt on the 28th of last month to hand over a customer’s 100 million won time deposit to an acquaintance. The customer was a woman in her 80s.
The customer had gone to the post office with an acquaintance and asked to break her time deposit early and transfer 100 million won to the accompanying acquaintance’s account. Yun found it unusual that the customer wanted to suddenly withdraw such a large deposit and asked her why.
In response to Yun’s question, the customer explained that the acquaintance accompanying her had promised to care for her for life, and even take care of her funeral and maintain her grave, in exchange for 100 million won. However, Yun noticed that the will the customer had brought had not been notarized and that its author was unclear, among other things, and suspected possible fraud.
Yun calmly explained to the customer that “the police must be notified first when withdrawing or transferring a large amount of cash,” then immediately called 112. The accompanying acquaintance strongly protested Yun’s actions and caused a disturbance, but Yun stayed at the scene to the end and handled the situation with composure.
She then explained what had happened to the police officers who arrived and turned the customer over to them. Her actions prevented a financial scam loss amounting to 100 million won.
The case is credited to Yun’s keen eye: she was familiar with financial fraud tactics and carefully watched for unusual signs from customers, helping prevent the loss.
Yun said, “Fraud targeting older people keeps happening, so I stay alert even while handling routine tasks,” adding, “I’m glad I could protect a customer’s valuable assets.”

[email protected] Kim Hee-sun Reporter