South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), the financial watchdog, announced on the 15th a strengthened plan to prevent and remedy card-payment damages linked to scams. The plan expands card companies’ anomalous transaction detection criteria to include cases in which victims are deceived by fraudsters and make payments themselves, not only third-party fraud such as hacking. For people aged 70 and older, suspected anomalous purchases of highly liquid items such as gift certificates will undergo in-depth consultations to verify the circumstances before payment approval. Voice phishing cases targeting this age group reached 1,493 last year, up 42.6% from the previous year, according to the National Police Agency. The FSS plans to broaden the age range and product categories after assessing the system’s effectiveness. It will also investigate whether goods were delivered in damage claims involving illegal merchants engaged in card loans or similar schemes. The FSS said payments have been canceled in some cases after merchants were found to have fabricated sales, including transactions made directly by consumers. It urged the public to reject card-payment requests disguised as high-yield part-time jobs or low-interest loans, while warning that card-company compensation is generally difficult when consumers complete payments themselves after proper identity verification, even if they were deceived.