On the 9th, the Urawa Police Station of Saitama Prefectural Police announced that an unemployed man (81) from Urawa Ward, Saitama City, had been the victim of a “SNS investment scam” in which an investment opportunity was offered to him via social media, and he was defrauded of 288.11 million yen. According to Urawa Police Station, this is the largest amount of damage ever caused by this type of fraud in the prefecture. According to the announcement, from around early April, the man had received messages from someone posing as a Japanese woman he had met through social media, asking him if he would like to run an online shop and saying that he needed money to purchase goods. Between April 24 and July 30, the man transferred cash to the designated account via internet banking 55 times. The maximum amount transferred in a single transaction was 9.9 million yen. The explanation given on social media was that “sales will be entered into the system,” and the man was shown an image which misled him into believing that he had made a profit of 1.3 billion yen. When communication was lost around early August, the man contacted Urawa Police Station. Yomiuri Shimbun Online Published on 9/9 (Mon) 19:07.
Judging from the amount of savings he has, he must have been quite the man in the past. If he has dementia or something, I guess he has no choice but to be fooled.
Rather than a large amount of this money going into the national treasury as inheritance tax in the near future to line the pockets of politicians and retired government officials, wouldn’t it be better to let a group of fraudsters use it to take advantage of the economic situation?
Docomo’s ridiculously careful smartphone classes were worth it. I think it’s important to infiltrate as well as sell tools. Wouldn’t the list of people who attended the smartphone classes be able to be sold for a high price? I think that’s probably a side job for agency agents. Some people have been arrested for reselling the lists.
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