Several replies written by a scammer on July 31 can be seen at Joonggonara, one of Naver's largest flea market, threatening one of users who tried to purchase an item and detected it was fraud. The scammer threatened the user saying that he was going to find the user's home address for organs trafficking./ A screenshot of Naver page

Naver's direct dealing café 'Joonggonara' has become a hotbed of fraud crime such as stolen goods transaction, and trafficking of drugs and weapons.

If you search for 'Joonggonara' and 'Joonggonara fraud' on Naver, you will find many posts related to crime damages on cafes and blogs. You will even find a café for Joonggonara fraud victims.

When searched for 'Joonggonara fraud' on Naver as of August 4, the result page was flooded with posts of crime damages written on Naver's cafes and blogs./ A screenshot of Naver page

On July 31, a fraud victim "Kim" complained to scammer with ID "cookingjjang", who was known to commit fraud frequently by posting false offerings on Naver's café 'Joonggonara'.

When the scammer's fraudulent practices were revealed, the scammer replied to Kim threatening, "I bet I will traffic your organs within two days. You don't know us. You should be nervous. Let's meet in person to hit you with an ax." It was revealed that a criminal committed fraud frequently in Naver's Joonggonara.

More details about how the criminal committed fraud in Naver's Joonggonara café can be found at the following link: cafe.naver.com/joonggonara/172192385.

Joonggonara, Korea's largest online flea market café with 10 million users, has become a hotbed of disposing stolen goods. According to the police, person-to-person transaction for all kinds of goods such as clothing and grocery except some items like pharmaceutical ones, takes place at the café.

Joonggonara being the hotbed of stolen goods has long been a subject of controversy. However, Naver hasn't imposed any sanctions.

The police official said, "Joonggonara has become a dealing market for stolen goods and our cyber investigation team has been doing a variety of activities such as 'writing comments for crime prevention' but there is greater difficulty in the investigation if Naver doesn't cooperate."

In addition, there are many Naver cafés for Joonggonara fraud victims. For example, there is a café for Joonggonara dried milk fraud victims, http://cafe.naver.com/searchkimminji, which has 435 members.

Naver said, "We just provide space for users and we cannot check every transaction of more than 11 million users."