[Saitama] Unemployed husband loses 27．7 million yen． In response to a phone call asking him to “prove his innocence，” his wife transfers so much money that she is almost out of pocket， but the fraud is discovered when she consults a lawyer．
On the 17th, the Saitama Prefectural Police Ageo Station announced that an unemployed man (71) from Okegawa City had been defrauded of 27.7 million yen in cash. According to the police station, from around 4 p.m. on July 15, the man received several phone calls from men claiming to be police officers and others who said things like, “An account has been opened in your name and you are suspected of being involved in a crime,” “In order to prove your innocence, we need to check all the money in your accounts,” and “We want you to combine your accounts into one and transfer the money.” The man believed the information and made four transfers of a total of 27.7 million yen into an account managed by the suspect between August 13th and 16th. Furthermore, the man received a phone call from a man claiming to be a prosecutor asking for a transfer of money, and becoming worried that he was running out of money, he consulted his wife. The wife consulted a lawyer and realized she had been deceived. On the 21st of the same month, the man’s wife called 110. 2024/09/18 18:43 Saitama Shimbun.
>>2 If he’s 71, it’s not surprising that he’s starting to lose his memory. My neighbor was in his early 70s and had to go to a nursing home for dementia. I wonder if he’s doing something shady with the way he’s spending his money. If he opened an account in his name without his permission and it was being used for crime, I think he would have told his wife from the start.
At first glance he seems stupid, and in fact he is an idiot, but the fact that he didn’t even consult his wife means that he had something shady going on.
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