"I need a lot of accounts for Citroen Citizen. I can pay you KRW 3 million for one account, and I will use it for 3 days."

It has been revealed that the sale of virtual money trading cannon passbooks is on the verge of a real name change for virtual currency trading starting from the 30th. As the real-name system is imminent, a lot of text messages are wishing to buy a cannon passbook, and various internet communities are coming up with a message to arrange the sale of cannon passbooks without filtration. It is an analysis that it is an attempt to secure a cannon banknote in advance of the real-name system conversion, because the use of non-accountable accounts is completely blocked by the government`s virtual currency block policy.

According to the financial system on January 23, a large number of messages have been circulating to buy virtual money trading accounts in various forms such as SNS, Internet community, text message, and e-mail.

In the case of KakaoTalk, when it comes to providing a bitcoin account, it is said that the offer of 3 million won will be distributed to many unspecified characters, and it is easy to find that it is possible to purchase a bit coin transaction account at a high price through Twitter. Also, if you search for `Bitcoin Bankbook` on general internet portal, there are articles that purchase bitcoin transaction account book.

In the financial sector, this is an attempt to distribute virtual currency trading funds in advance to the cannon banknote in advance of the transition to the virtual monetary real name system.

"It is true that virtual money has been abused a lot of money laundering to pretend that criminal proceeds are normal assets," said a bank official. "Since virtual money trading is possible only after the blindness has been confirmed from the end of this month, I think it is a frequent transaction of cannon passbooks for money laundering."

In the case of financial sector, the government does not recognize virtual money itself as a formal financial transaction product, so it seems that a lot of funds that cannot identify the nature or origin of the money in the virtual money market has been imported.

Therefore, it is pointed out that the attempt to acquire a cannon banknote in order to utilize illegally earned funds for virtual currency transactions prior to the conversion to the real name system will be more widespread.

Social problems related to virtual currency trading do not stop with the artillery account. The Financial Consumer Confederation, a financial consumer group, has received damages from virtual money trading since the 22nd of this month. As a result, it has been found that there are various damages such as delays in receiving and exchanging data, leakage of personal information due to hacking, and so on. Kim Hyoung-mook, a researcher at the Korea Federation of Financial Consumers, said, "Attempts to acquire cannon passports have been increasing in recent years.

By Cho Eun Guk ceg4204@


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