Gold and Silver Alchemist

“yes? Is it voice phishing?”

I just came to the gold exchange to buy a gold bar, but it’s voice phishing.

I looked at the cops with eyes that I didn’t know why.

The exchange staff backed away from me, fearing that they might harm me.

One of the cops, seeing my bewildered expression, relaxed his guard slightly and asked,

“What is your resident registration number?”

I held out the temporary ID I was holding in my hand.

The police officer who looked up the resident registration number pointed to the cash in the bag and asked.

“What is that money?”

“It was withdrawn from the bank a while ago. I want to buy a gold bar.”

“Is the money really withdrawn directly from the bank?”

I didn’t throw it away and showed the withdrawal statement I had to the police.

After the police called the bank to confirm the withdrawal, they apologized to me.

“sorry. We misunderstood.”

Then, the exchange employee bowed his head toward me.

“oh my! Customer, sorry!”

An exchange employee had reported me to the police.

I didn’t understand and asked him.

“Why did you report me? As a voice phishing criminal?”

“These days, voice phishing criminals are infesting the gold exchange… A few days ago, I almost got hit by a young man your age…”

A while ago, a young man came here to buy a gold bar with a large amount of money.

At the time, the exchange employee was suspicious of the man’s anxious attitude and did not match the wealthy, and reported it to the police.

However, that man was really the voice phishing criminals’ collection book.

“You said you were surprised to see the lid of the pot on your breasts when you grew up, and I thought it was something like that again because a young man came with a large amount of money…”

I heard from the police that these days, voice phishing criminals hire part-time money collectors to launder money by exchanging cash for gold bars and sometimes gold bars for cash according to their needs.

That’s why there are many young people who become ex-convicts after being involved in voice phishing while trying to get a high-paying part-time job.

“I’m really sorry!”

The staff apologized to me over and over again.

I shook my head.

“no. You did a good job as a precaution.”

Anyway, after the police went back, I bought six 1kg gold bars and returned to the hotel as originally planned.

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I sat on the sofa and looked at the gold bars on the table.

I put my finger on one of them.

hiss-

The gold bar disappeared like a charm.

In turn, all the remaining gold bars were absorbed.

‘I ate well!’

While absorbing the gold bar, I learned one thing through various experiments.

Gold could not be stored in the inventory.

This is because the moment you touch gold, you go straight to the ‘Gold Storage’ without any time to store it in your inventory.

It was the same even if you put the gold bar in your bag and put the whole bag in your inventory.

Only the bag remains in the inventory, and the gold bar is automatically moved to the gold warehouse.

Once gold goes into storage, it cannot be taken out again.

‘I can’t do smuggling.’

While studying gold a little, I realized that each country has a different value-added tax when buying gold.

In Korea, you have to pay a 10% value-added tax to buy physical gold.

However, some countries were able to buy gold without paying a penny of VAT.

If you buy gold from such a country and secretly bring it back to Korea, that is gold smuggling.

If you manage to smuggle gold ingots, you can evade 13% of the gold price by adding a 10% VAT plus a 3% tariff.

If you succeed in smuggling a 1kg gold bar, which is smaller than the size of your palm, you can earn close to 10 million won.

I understood a little why the smugglers risked their lives to smuggle gold while overusing their precious ‘anti-x’.

If you could carry gold in your inventory, you wouldn’t need another source of money.

‘Sorry.’

And now, urgently, I had to find a new way to buy gold bars.

The money won from the casino had a clear source, so there was no problem buying gold bars on the exchange with that money.

However, since the source of the money stolen from Chairman Kim is unclear, it was absolutely wrong to continue buying gold bars in the same way as today.

What would the Financial Supervisory Service think if they found out that I bought 100 billion won worth of gold bars from the gold exchange when the money I won at the casino was 36 billion won?

He will definitely call me in and ask where the rest of the money comes from except for 36 billion won.

Then you won’t be able to take it off or beat it.

Therefore, you must buy gold anonymously so that your identity is not revealed.

The most representative way to buy gold under a bearer name was peer-to-peer gold trading.

It is to give cash to individuals who want to sell gold through second-hand trading sites and take over the gold.

‘Shall we try it?’

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＜Because cases involving voice phishing are rapidly increasing, please be careful when trading real gold.＞

When I accessed a used trading site famous for gold bar trading, a notice from the manager popped up.

These days, there are many people who sold gold to individuals other than gold and silver stores, but were involved in voice phishing and suffered disadvantages such as suspension of their bank accounts.

They said they paid more than gold and silver rooms, so I handed over the gold and received the money, but that money was the money of the voice phishing criminals.

In such cases, they are suspected of being accomplices with voice phishing criminals and will be investigated by the police, and the bank account from which the money was transferred will be frozen until the charges are cleared.

There were numerous cases where the account was suspended for more than 10 days after selling a stone ring.

Because of that incident, people began to be reluctant to sell gold to individuals.

I searched the bulletin board for a while, but there was not a single person offering to sell gold.

Voice phishing criminals hit second-hand trading sites as well as gold exchanges.

‘Such a voice phishing bastard who will rip and kill the world!’

Because of them, I suffered damage.

Because my plan to buy gold under an anonymous name through a second-hand trading site has been disrupted.

Voice phishing bastards!

Anytime you get caught by me, you’ll be very harpooned!

Anyway, how should I buy gold now?

‘Should I set up a gold and silver room?’

I was about to give up on the second-hand deal and close the site, but a hot new article came up.

＜If you want to purchase a gold bar, please contact us.＞

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When I came to the address I was given via text message, it was a small office in a shabby building.

“nice to see you. This is Manager Kim.”

The man handed me his business card.

＜Specialized in consignment trading of gold bars＞

Just as there are people like me who want to buy gold bars without revealing their identity, there are also people who want to sell them without revealing their identity.

The man in front of her was a broker who connected the two and collected commissions.

“Originally, we can never do what we do without trust.”

That was right.

Second-hand trading of gold is not illegal per se, but there is a risk that the gold may be counterfeit and the cash may be a waste of money.

I opened the bag of cash I brought and said.

“Don’t worry, this money is not bad money.”

To my words, the man replied with a smile.

“What I gain from doing this job is my ability to see people. At first glance, he seems like a very honest and good business man!”

I smiled and looked at the gold bar the man had spread out in front of me.

It was 12 gold bars weighing 1 kg.

“Certainly this isn’t fake, is it?”

“It can’t be! The purity of 99.99 certified by the Mint Corporation, ‘4 Nine’ is certain!”

I was just asking

You can tell right away if the gold is fake.

I can accurately determine the authenticity of the gold bar with my ‘golden hand’, which does not even handle 18K.

Ssuk-

I pushed the bag of money toward the man.

Then he put the gold bar neatly in his bag and handed it to me.

I took the bag full of gold and looked out the office window.

“The weather is nice today.”

Then the man looked out the window and replied.

“It really is.”

hiss-

Aiming for that short gap, I put the bag in my inventory and took it out again.

It would have taken less than 0.1 second.

Even if the scene was recorded on CCTV, it was a moment enough to be regarded as a screen shake.

‘It’s real gold.’

The gold bar was real.

The moment I entered the inventory, the gold in the bag moved to the gold warehouse.

And then I felt a sense of satiety.

‘I ate well!’

I’m not a bully who cheats with fake gold, so I’ll buy more gold bars from that man in the future.

I smiled and said to the man.

“I wish you well in the future.”

“Ugh, I’d like to do better!”

As I was about to get up, he handed me a small box.

“This is a gift only for VVIPs.”

“what?”

“If you open it, you will know.”

What was in the box was a cell phone.

“Is it a cannon phone?”

Director Kim’s ears perked up at my question.

“ha ha ha! If you say it so bluntly… Yes, that’s right! If you have anything to contact me in the future, please do so!”

I nodded, grabbed my cannon phone, and left the office.

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thiririri-

I was having dinner at the hotel’s Chinese restaurant when the cannon phone rang.

“hello?”

-hello!

The voice was Chief Kim, whom I met today.

-There were good cases, so I was able to contact you again this soon.

“What kind of demand?”

-Are you willing to buy a foreign gold bar instead of a Korean gold bar?

When extracting the elixir, the nationality of the gold bar was not important at all.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s foreign gold.”

-Good for you! I have quite a few stocks. How much do you intend to purchase?

“How many things do you have?”

There is -50 kg.

In terms of money, it was about 4 billion won.

“I will live.”

– Hey! great. I also prefer to hand it over to one person as a turnkey rather than selling it to several people. When will the transaction date be set?

I was asking how long the money would be ready.

“You can do it right now.”

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thump thump-

I came to a song bar in Suwon.

I went to the counter and said as manager Kim told me.

“How many Taekwang Industrial employees are in the room?”

“Room 27!”

When I entered room 27, people in factory uniforms were sitting there.

The logo of ‘Taekwang Industry’ was engraved on the uniform.

‘what?’

Then someone in the room waved at me.

It was Manager Kim.

He was the only one wearing a black jacket, not a uniform.

He introduced me to the man in the high table.

“Greetings! This is the CEO of Taekwang Industries.”

The boss called me to shake my hand.

“nice to see you. My name is Lim Soo-hwan.”

I only shook hands with him and did not reveal his name.

And he looked at Chief Kim with a confused expression on his face.

Calling out to sell gold, I couldn’t understand what this was doing right now.

Then the boss shouted at someone.

“Chief Park! Stop drinking and sing a song!”

Then the white-haired man stepped forward and grabbed the microphone.

His face was familiar.

‘Why is that human here?’

He was the owner of an entertainment bar where I worked before.