A woman who once claimed to be former T-ARA's singer Hwayoung's cousin during a bullying scandal that coincided with her leaving the group, was reportedly taken into police custody in South Korea on Sunday, for impersonating a rescue scuba diver at the site of last week's Sewol ferry disaster.

Hong Ga Hye reportedly turned herself to police in South Korea's South Jeolla Province, after a warrant had been issued for her impersonating a volunteer diver at the scene of the ferry accident in an interview on Friday with the Korean business channel Maeil Broadcasting Network (MBN), according to the website allkpop.

According to CNN, 87 people have been confirmed dead in the tragic shipwreck, which occurred when a ferry to Jeju Island in the Yellow Sea, off of South Korea's southwestern coast, capsized.

The international rescue effort for the remaining victims of the ferry disaster remains in progress, as an estimated 215 people are still missing, many of them students from a high school outside Seoul that were on a class trip.

"We're not getting the promised equipment, and the government personnel told us just to waste time and go," Hong said in the phony interview.

Korean journalist Kim Yong Ho immediately recognized Hong, and took to Twitter to let the MBN correspondents know they had been fooled.

"MBN has been tricked by Hong Ga Hye!" Kim wrote following Hong's interview.

"I was the one who discovered her true identity [in the T-ARA scandal] with the private detective who investigated her. She is beyond the scope of what you've heard of her on the Internet. She's not just a simple con artist. She is a woman who is spine-chillingly scary."

MBN executives issued a retraction of the interview, shortly thereafter.

"We bow our heads for creating confusion among the family of the victims who are awaiting news anxiously, and the maritime police and volunteer rescue workers who are still working to save lives," the MBN statement read.

According to a police statement from Sunday, the warrant for Hong's arrest was issued after a quick background check appeared to confirm she wasn't the person she was claiming to be.

"We checked with the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, and Hong Ga Hye does not have any kind of license related to any sort of diving," the police statement read. "We will be checking to see if she has a foreign diving license as soon as possible."