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Before moving into
a new apartment, a prospective residents' Internet café was created, and it turned out that it was made for business by a company that sells tenant supplies. People who signed up without knowing this say they were involved in the company's specifications and their personal information was stolen.

Reporter Park Jae-yeon contributed to this report.

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Mr. Wu Mo, who is about to move into a new apartment in
Paju, Gyeonggi, joined

the Internet café for prospective apartment tenants created in October last year to share information with other prospective tenants and learn about joint purchases.

[Mr. A/Prospective Tenant: I was going to make it, let's wait a while, someone will make it, but it was made a little later.]

The number of members quickly exceeded 400, and a group chat room was created.

But strange things began to come to my eye.

[Mr. A/Prospective Tenant: When I posted a joint purchase post without management, I suddenly blinded him and forced him to leave.]

The café also offered residents a special price and offered air purification services, which were 10% more expensive than when communicating directly with a service provider.

[Mr. A/Prospective Tenant: It was the same brand company I recognized, but there was a difference of 40,000 won per household.

It wasn't until a month later that I found out that it was a commercial café made by a company specializing in occupancy.

There were also circumstances in which personal information for joining the café was stolen.

When the tenants found out about the real thing and built a new café, they were caught pretending to be residents using the down payment receipt with the resident's name and the east and lake that the company had already secured.

[Mr. B/Prospective resident: Exactly. It's our groom's handwriting. I was a little puzzled because I didn't know how to exploit it. A lot.]

The company stated its position that "anyone can create and operate a café for business, and it is not made with the consent of each tenant."

(Video Editor: Choi Hye-ran, VJ: Kim Jong-gap, Lee Joon-young)

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Reporter Jaehyun Park who covered this story.

Q. Are there more "commercial cafes"?

[Reporter Park Jae-yeon: It was found that there are more places where the company has set up tenant cafes and operates to residents. Apartments in Suwon and Yangju, Gyeonggi, also have tenant cafes, but when I checked the operator ID, it was the same as in the Paju case, and the advertising banner form introducing tenant goods vendors at the café was similar. The company also opened a tenant café in an apartment complex in Ansan to hold a move-in fair, which caused a conflict with the café created by the actual tenants.]

Q. How to tell a real café from a fake café?

[Reporter Park Jae-yeon: Anyone can create an Internet café, and it does not force people to join, so there is no way to regulate it legally, and the management entity is not clear. Residents complain that as prospective tenants are dispersed into fake cafes, it is difficult to organize tenant representative meetings and tenant councils that require more than 50% consent. It is not easy to distinguish them based on appearances, so you need to see if there is a lot of useful information in the real life of actual residents. If you say that there is not good management, such as harmful spam or ad blocking, or that there are too many advertisements or solicitations for tenant-related partners, it is better to be suspicious first. I hope so.]